The deal, which hasn’t yet closed, will bring Astral’s team into OpenAI’s Codex effort, OpenAI said Thursday. Codex has more than 2 million users, the company said, a number that’s tripled since the start of this year. Astral’s suite of tools will push Codex — which can write software features, fix bugs and run tests — into a broader suite of developer services.
“Astral has always focused on building tools that transform how developers work with ...