Catherine Wu has moved from Anthropic to OpenAI

Catherine Wu, who served as the lead product manager for the Claude Code project at Anthropic, has announced her departure. She is moving to OpenAI, where she will lead product management for "Core Products".

In her new role, Wu will work closely with Thibault Sottiaux, who leads the development of the Codex model. The move of such a high-level specialist is a notable event, as this is the third employee to leave the Claude Code team at Anthropic in the last two weeks.

Claude Code is a specialized tool for automating the writing and debugging of program code, which is one of the priority areas for Anthropic. The departure of a key product manager could affect the development pace of this product and the strategy for its integration into the company's ecosystem.

For users and developers, this means potential changes to the roadmap for Anthropic's coding tools. At the same time, OpenAI strengthening its team with a specialist experienced in working on Claude Code indicates the company's intention to bolster its position in the AI programming assistant segment.