OpenAI to acquire Astral
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Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Today we’re announcing that OpenAI will acquire Astral⁠, bringing powerful open source developer tools into our Codex ecosystem.

Astral has built some of the most widely used open source Python tools, helping developers move faster with modern tooling like uv, Ruff, and ty. These tools power millions of developer workflows and have become part of the foundation of modern Python development. As part of our developer-first philosophy, after closing OpenAI plans to support Astral’s open source products. By bringing Astral’s tooling and engineering expertise to OpenAI, we will accelerate our work on Codex and expand what AI can do across the software development lifecycle.

  • NostraDavid
    2·
    9 days ago

    I am sceptical, but hopeful. The Codex CLI is open source, so I’m somewhat hopeful it’ll stay open source. My only worry is that they’ll take too many people off the tools, stalling the development of uv, ruff and ty.

    PS: Can we get a pytest alternative? It’s so slow :(

    • moto
      8·
      9 days ago

      I’m not a huge fan of AI companies buying up all the tool chains and trying to insert themselves as the only middleman to coding.

      Which feels like what these moves are.