Can Prentis's tiny Hive-32B model beat GPT-4o at controlling your PC?
new ai lab prentis, backed by reid hoffman and marc pincus, is raising $100m to build agents that automate office work, claiming its 32b model beats rivals on benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
prentis is negotiating a $100m funding round led by venture capital, seeking a $1b valuation for its ai agents designed to control computers and automate routine office tasks. the startup claims its hive-32b model surpasses openai's gpt-4.0 and anthropic's claude on windows agent benchmarks, arguing that its smaller model offers 10x lower cost per task than frontier apis. with $50m in contracts already secured, prentis targets verticals like healthcare and manufacturing to handle exceptions and paperwork. the move intensifies competition in the agent space, challenging incumbents like anthropic and mira murati's thinking machines labs.