New AI Lab Prentis, Co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, in Talks to Raise $100M
Prentis, an AI research lab founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Pincus, is raising $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. The startup develops computer-use AI agents that automate office workflows and claims its Hive-32B model outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks.
Prentis, a new AI research lab launched in April, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. Co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Pincus, the startup focuses on computer-use models that learn how office workers navigate routine workflows. It aims to build AI agents that can automate tasks like handling insurance claims or customs duty refunds. Prentis has signed contracts worth up to $50 million with customers in healthcare, manufacturing, and goods. The company claims its Hive-32B model outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on the WindowsAgentArena and ScreenSpot-v2 benchmarks, with roughly 10 times lower cost per task than frontier APIs. These claims have not been independently verified. Prentis faces competition from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab. Anthropic recently acquired computer-use startup Vercept. Prentis has over 25 employees, including researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Tencent, and Alibaba.
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