Astral Python Tools Company to Join OpenAI's Codex Team
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Summary
Astral, the company behind popular Python development tools like Ruff, uv, and ty, has announced it has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team. The company was founded with the mission to make programming more productive by building fast, robust, intuitive, and integrated Python tools. Their tools have grown to hundreds of millions of downloads per month and have become foundational to modern Python development.
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· 5 pulledI started Astral to make programming more productive.
From the beginning, our goal has been to build tools that radically change what it feels like to work with Python – tools that feel fast, robust, intuitive, and integrated.
Today, we're taking a step forward in that mission by announcing that we've entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
Over the past few years, our tools have grown from zero to hundreds of millions of downloads per month across Ruff, uv, and ty.
The Astral toolchain has become foundational to modern Python development.
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
