OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company into its Codex team. The deal, whose financial terms were ...

Python, OpenAI said, has become one of the most important languages in modern software development, powering everything from AI and data science to back-end systems and developer infrastructure. Astral’s open source tools play a key role in that ...

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development tools are written in Rust, a programming language that ...

March 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Thursday it will acquire Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT owner looks to strengthen its portfolio against ‌rival Anthropic and gain more share in the artificial intelligence coding tools market. The companies ...