Prentis AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus raises $100 million at $1 billion valuation

Funding Provisional 92% confidence first seen 24 July 2026, 22:25

Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is raising $100 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop computer-control models for automating office tasks. The startup has already secured $50 million in customer contracts and claims its Hive-32B model outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus on computer-use benchmarks while costing significantly less.