Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, leaves Anthropic and joins OpenAI to lead Core Products PM
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- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 5 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra188 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5127 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon218 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7157 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 127 days before it.
Key facts
- Nov 4 (X, 2.63M views): Wu says she is ‘joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products’, working with Thibault Sottiaux; Greg Brockman and Sottiaux welcomed her
- Business Insider called the hire a coup for OpenAI weeks before Anthropic’s IPO
- Departure announced by Wu herself (per BI/Techmeme)
- Follows Thariq Shihipar’s exit (Oct 24)
What happened
Written from Techmeme’s summary; BI unreadable for us. Her new role at OpenAI is from her own X post (Nov 4).
Sources
3 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 2 press, 1 reaction
Press
- Business Insider: Cat Wu joins OpenAI from Anthropicbusinessinsider.com, press
- Business Insider: Claude Code leader Cat Wu exits Anthropic before big IPObusinessinsider.com, press
Reactions
- Cat Wu on X: joining OpenAIx.com, discussion
Changes
- She joins OpenAI as head of product management for Core Products (her X post, BI)
- Filed