OpenAI poaches Claude Code product lead Cat Wu as Head of Core Product Management
Cat Wu, former product lead for Anthropic's Claude Code, has officially joined OpenAI as Head of Product Management for Core Product, working on core product and AI agent-related efforts and reporting to Tibo Sottiaux. She witnessed Claude Code's journey from an internal prototype to commercialization and also helped lead Cowork, a product aimed at non-coding knowledge work scenarios. As of February 2026, Claude Code's annualized revenue run rate has exceeded $2.5 billion, more than doubling since the start of the year.
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OpenAI poaches Claude Code's core operator! Former product lead Cat Wu officially joins
Fast Technology Download App | Exclusive First Look November 5, 2026, 16:58:17 | From Henan
Fast Technology News, November 5: OpenAI has poached another core talent from competitor Anthropic.
According to media reports, former Anthropic Claude Code product lead Cat Wu announced today that she has officially joined OpenAI as Head of Product Management for Core Products, participating in work related to OpenAI's core products and AI agents.
It is reported that after joining OpenAI, Cat Wu will collaborate with Enterprise Product Lead Nick Turley, Consumer Product Lead Ashley Alexander and others, and will report to Tibo Sottiaux.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman subsequently reposted the news of her onboarding on the social platform X and publicly welcomed her.
Cat Wu was previously the core product lead for Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude Code, having witnessed the entire process of the product going from an internal prototype to commercialization, and was also an important early promoter of it on social media.
With her involvement and push, Claude Code gradually became a star product in the AI coding field. In addition to Claude Code, Cat Wu also participated in leading Anthropic's Cowork product for non-coding knowledge work scenarios, and has extensive experience in productizing AI agents and office scenarios.
According to data published by Anthropic, as of February 2026, Claude Code's annualized revenue run rate had exceeded $2.5 billion, more than doubling from the beginning of 2026, its number of weekly active users had also doubled, and the number of enterprise user subscriptions had reached 4 times that at the beginning of the year.
Regarding this move to OpenAI, Cat Wu expressed high approval. She said she greatly admires OpenAI, believing that the company has proven to the world the feasibility of AI at scale, enabling more than a billion people to use AI, and has always firmly believed that excellent products are the core of realizing its mission.
It is worth mentioning that this is not Cat Wu's first time leaving Anthropic. In 2025, she joined AI coding startup Cursor together with Boris Cherny, but the two returned to Anthropic about two weeks later to continue participating in the development of Claude Code.
Cat Wu's official joining of OpenAI this time undoubtedly adds new talking points to the competition between the two sides. As competition in the AI industry gradually extends from underlying models to coding tools, agents and office products, core talent with successful product launch experience is becoming a key focus of competition among tech giants. In the future, whether OpenAI can translate the product experience she accumulated at Claude Code into its own competitive advantage is worth watching.
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