# Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI

**Published:** November 5, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/anthropic-loses-product-lead-catherine-wu-behind-claude-code-to-openai

Catherine Wu, the founding product lead for Claude Code, is leaving Anthropic for OpenAI, where she'll head up product management for "Core Products" and work directly with Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux. She's the third person to leave Anthropic's Claude Code team in just two…

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Anthropic

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