OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty — the most widely adopted modern Python developer tooling. The acquisition is aimed at integrating Astral's tools directly into Codex, OpenAI's agentic coding product, which now has 2M weekly active users and has seen 5x usage growth since January. OpenAI says it will continue supporting Astral's open source products post-acquisition, with the stated goal of enabling AI agents to participate in the full development lifecycle using the tools developers already rely on.
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OpenAI to acquire Astral
OpenAI acquires Astral to own the Python tooling ecosystem (uv, Ruff, ty) powering Codex, its agentic coder reaching 2M weekly users with 5x growth since January.
Saturday, March 21, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: OpenAI BlogBY sys://pipeline
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