--- title: Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark... description: Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus, and serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mark-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m-ssarmfkok twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M | daily.dev og:description: Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus, and serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mark-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m-ssarmfkok og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ssARmfKok.png og:image:alt: Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus, and serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. Launched in April, the startup trains models to automate routine office workflows — such as handling insurance claims and customs duty refunds — using computer-use AI agents. Its Hive-32B model claims to outperform OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on computer-use benchmarks at roughly 10x lower cost per task. The company has already signed contracts worth up to $50 million and projects ~$75 million annualized run rate by Q3. The space is competitive, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab also pursuing computer-use agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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