Some of the most beloved and, importantly, used Python developer tools come from the company, which will now be supported by OpenAI.
The deal for roughly 32 employees will strengthen Codex by integrating the tools that have «hundreds of millions of downloads per month,» according to Astral themselves.
OpenAI will continue to maintain the open source projects, and by gaining access to them — and the engineers’ knowhow — for Codex’s AI agents, they will be able to work more closely with the tools.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Astral’s announcement, and CNBC.