OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company, a small San Francisco software developer. It plans to fold the startup's Code.Storage infrastructure layer for Git into Codex, its AI-powered programming tool.
Neither company disclosed what OpenAI is paying.
Pierre Computer's staff numbers barely in the double digits, but the company is well known for Code.Storage and for two open-source software libraries, Trees and Diffs. OpenAI already uses both libraries in Codex.
OpenAI pointed to Pierre Computer's code-review tools as one reason for the deal. It singled out the Edit mode in Diffs and the recently released Highlights feature as especially useful to development teams.
The purchase targets a problem OpenAI has run into directly: the limits of Git itself. The company's in-house engineers are already working to improve how the system supports human coders and AI agents working in parallel.
Earlier this week, OpenAI described Pando, a new back end it built for Git repositories so that concurrent work can happen at scale.
Codex has been a growing priority for OpenAI this year. The company has offered the tool to Mac users and expanded it to Windows.
In announcing the acquisition, OpenAI said it wants the Pierre team to help it set the standard for modern software development, from the first branch an agent creates through deployment.
We want to make Codex the place where developers and agents take on their most ambitious projects.
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Existing Code.Storage customers can keep using the product until its features move into Codex, OpenAI said. Pierre Computer's open-source projects will stay open, and OpenAI will continue contributing to them.
