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OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

TechnologyMarch 19, 20261 min readAttributed summary
OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral
Codex maker says it will "continue to support these open source projects" after deal closes.
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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 not publicly disclosed, will help OpenAI "accelerate our work on Codex and expand what AI can do across the software development lifecycle," the company said in an announcement post. Integrating Astral's tools more closely with Codex after the acquisition will "enable AI agents to work more directly with the tools developers already rely on every day," it continued.

Astral's most popular open source projects include:

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