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Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former chief product officer who recently led the company’s new AI workspace for scientists called Prism, announced his exit on Friday. The departure coincides with OpenAI’s decision to dissolve Prism, folding its roughly 10‑person team into the Codex division. The move is part of a broader effort to streamline product offerings and focus on enterprise and coding tools as the company prepares for an IPO. OpenAI also confirmed the launch of GPT‑Rosalind, a suite of models aimed at accelerating life‑science research. Read more

Venture capital firms have been circling Anthropic with offers that could value the AI startup at more than $800 billion, but the company has so far declined to engage. The offers come after Anthropic raised $30 billion in a February round that set its valuation at $380 billion, and they rival OpenAI’s recent $852 billion post‑money valuation. With $50 billion earmarked for its own data‑center build‑out, $30 billion committed to Microsoft’s cloud, and billions spent on AWS, Anthropic appears intent on funding growth internally rather than seeking fresh equity. Read more