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 ...

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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 ...

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

OpenAI's most significant competitors in the AI coding space include Cursor and Anthropic ( ANTHRO ). Cursor is in talks with investors for a funding round that would value the startup at about $50B.