Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Doubles Down on Developers: Acquires Astral and Supercharges Codex in the Battle Against Claude

OpenAI Doubles Down on Developers: Acquires Astral and Supercharges Codex in the Battle Against Claude

OpenAI has just made its boldest infrastructure play yet.On March 19, 2026, the company officially announced the acquisition of Astral — the elite team behind three of the most beloved and fastest-growing tools in the modern Python ecosystem: uv (the lightning-fast package manager), Ruff (the world’s fastest Python linter and formatter), and ty (the next-generation type checker).

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