Overview
- Astral announced an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team, with the acquisition subject to customary closing conditions and no financial terms disclosed.
- OpenAI said Codex now has more than 2 million weekly active users after tripling its user base since the start of the year.
- Astral will keep building its projects in the open and OpenAI will continue supporting the open source tools after the deal closes.
- The companies plan to explore integrations so Astral's tooling works more seamlessly with Codex.
- Astral reports its tools Ruff, uv, and ty reach hundreds of millions of downloads per month and have become foundational in modern Python development.