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.

OpenAI is developing a “super app” for desktop that unifies ChatGPT, its browser and its Codex app, according to the Wall Street Journal and CNBC.

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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.

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