Cat Wu leaves Anthropic’s Claude Code team to lead core product management at OpenAI

Cat Wu has left Anthropic’s Claude Code team to lead core product management at OpenAI. The move places a key figure from Anthropic’s coding-focused Claude initiative inside its closest rival, sharpening competition between the two leading AI developers. It matters because talent flows between frontier labs often signal where product priorities are heading, and Wu’s new role spans OpenAI’s core product management rather than a narrow engineering remit. Watch for how OpenAI’s product roadmap and developer tooling evolve under her direction, and whether Anthropic’s Claude Code team adjusts its own priorities in response.