Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is raising $100M to develop AI agents that automate office workflows by controlling computers. The startup claims its Hive-32B model outperforms competitors on computer-use benchmarks and has secured contracts worth up to $50M with various companies. Prentis aims to make AI automation more economical and widespread in office tasks, competing with other firms like Anthropic and OpenAI.