OpenAI Acquires Astral for AI-Powered Coding Tools Expansion
OpenAI has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open-source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty. The deal will help OpenAI accelerate its work on Codex, expanding what AI can do across the software development lifecycle. Astral’s most popular projects include a Rust-based Python package manager (126 million … Read more