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 has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.