Astral to Join OpenAI
I 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. The numbers – and the impact – went far beyond my most ambitious expectations at every step of the way. Open source is at the heart of that impact and the heart of that story; it sits at the center of everything we do….
