OpenAI to Acquire Pierre Computer and Add Code Storage to Codex
OpenAI announced on November 4 that it plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company, which develops Code Storage and the open-source Trees, Diffs and Highlights tools. Codex already uses Pierre’s Trees and Diffs libraries for file browsing and reviewing changes. After the acquisition closes, OpenAI plans to bring Code Storage features into Codex and work with Pierre on Git workflows for teams using coding agents. Pierre’s open-source projects will remain open source, and customers will continue to be able to use Code Storage. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, and the companies will operate separately until closing.
OpenAI says the acquisition will expand the developer tooling behind Codex and support Git workflows in which developers and coding agents work together. The announcement also commits OpenAI to continuing Pierre’s open-source projects.
Today we're announcing that OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc(opens in a new window). (“Pierre”), the company behind Code Storage(opens in a new window) and a family of standout open-source developer tools. If you’ve browsed files or reviewed a change in the Codex app, you’ve already used Pierre’s Trees and Diffs libraries. We’re excited to work with the Pierre team to build on the Git workflows that developers already rely on and adapt them to how teams work with coding agents.
We’ve seen in our own engineering work how the systems around Git need to evolve as more of that work happens in parallel. Earlier this week, we shared how we’re scaling Git at OpenAI with Pando, our in-house source control backend for engineers and agents. With the Pierre team, we wish to set the standard for modern software development: from the first branch an agent creates to that magic moment when code is deployed to the world. We want to make Codex the place where developers and agents take on their most ambitious projects.
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