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title: "Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code (Stephen Council/Business Insider)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cat-wu-who-left-anthropic-last-week-says-she-is-joining-openai-to-lead-bd5e98e4
published: 2026-11-05T01:20:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code (Stephen Council/Business Insider)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-05 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cat-wu-who-left-anthropic-last-week-says-she-is-joining-openai-to-lead-bd5e98e4

Stephen Council / Business Insider : Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code — Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers, is joining OpenAI. She announced the news on X.

In this story: [OpenAI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/openai), [Cat Wu](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/cat-wu), [Anthropic](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/anthropic), [Claude Code](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/claude-code)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261104/p60#a261104p60)

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