OpenAI to acquire Astral, bringing Python tools like uv, Ruff, and ty into Codex as it moves from code generation to executing full developer workflows.

OpenAI has agreed to acquire Astral, a startup behind widely used Python development tools, in a deal designed to sharpen its Codex coding assistant as competition with Anthropic intensifies. The ...

Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

The acquisition of Astral comes at a time when OpenAI is rapidly growing it developer platform. Since the start of this year, Codex has seen its usage increase five-fold, and it now boasts over 2 ...

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