Anthropic's Claude Code lead Catherine Wu jumps to OpenAI
anthropic's product lead catherine wu leaves for openai to run product management for core products, highlighting fierce competition between the two ai companies.
catherine wu, the product lead behind anthropic's claude code, has left the company to join openai, where she will lead product management for core products. this high-profile departure highlights the fierce competition between anthropic and openai, which extends beyond model development to areas like pricing, product strategy, and talent acquisition. during her two-year tenure at anthropic, wu oversaw the growth of claude code from a small internal tool to a more autonomous system that handles large migrations and builds new products. at openai, wu plans to focus on building agents that automate tasks while allowing users to maintain control. this move follows other recent departures from anthropic, including skills and context engineer thariq shihipar and anthony morris, who built claude code desktop.