OpenAI to buy Python toolmaker Astral to take on Anthropic

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-buy-python-toolmaker-astral-take-anthropic-2026-03-19/

10 Comments

aftersalaryattitude Mar 19, 2026 +63

ok but why would they need to buy a whole company just for Python tools lol, feels like overkill tbh

xynith116 Mar 19, 2026 +42

Why would they buy a whole software company when they can just ask ChatGPT to make the tools? /s

themostofpost Mar 19, 2026 +27

Welcome to capitalism. If you can’t beat em, buy em.

phylter99 Mar 21, 2026 +1

And if you can’t buy ‘em, sue ‘em.

Ashkir Mar 21, 2026 +1

Probably the talent. OpenAI probably wants a few of their employees and this is the cheapest way to acquire them.

pspahn Mar 20, 2026 +9

And I just recently decided to start using UV after putting it off for too long. ... but I'm not going to start using Codex.

jonnablaze Mar 20, 2026 +4

Same, I literally started using uv last week 😂 I may have cursed us all.

Classic93 Mar 20, 2026 +7

OpenAI scrabling to catch up to Anthropic. Smartest AI developers have left OpenAI long ago... And they are not coming back.

Dry_Departure_7813 Mar 20, 2026 +2

Well yeah, they know OpenAI is a dead end, they're too invested in their GPT model to do the ground up revision to fix it.

MiloGoesToTheFatFarm Mar 19, 2026 +5

Can’t buy yourself out of this one, big dog.

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