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OpenAI on Thursday announced the acquisition of Astral, the developer of open source Python tools that include uv, Ruff and ty. It says that it plans to integrate them with Codex, its AI coding agent ...

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

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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 ...

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OpenAI acquires Astral, the Python toolmaker, to enhance Codex AI coding assistant as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor.

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 ...