Hoffman-Backed AI Lab Prentis Seeks Unicorn Valuation
Prentis (launched April 2026) in talks for 1B per TechCrunch. Company has not publicly confirmed. Hive-32B benchmark and ARR claims are company/pitch materials. Team claims alumni from OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, Tencent, Alibaba. Crowded category vs OpenAI, Anthropic computer-use efforts.