① Artificial Intelligence Anthropic has acquired developer tools startup Bun, marking its first acquisition; ② This acquisition aims to improve the speed and stability of Anthropic's coding agent and expand the scale of its code generation tool, Claude Code; ③ Anthropic previously received funding from Microsoft. and Nvidia With strong support.
US artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced on Tuesday (December 2) that it has acquired development tools startup Bun.
As the developer of the large model Claude, Anthropic is seeking to improve the speed and stability of its coding agent, and the acquisition of Bun will help developers run and manage code more efficiently.
It's worth noting that this is Anthropic's first acquisition. Anthropic stated, "Bun will help us build the infrastructure for next-generation software."
Bun, the company that was acquired, was founded by Jarred Sumner in 2021 and is a comprehensive software toolkit that integrates code execution, management, packaging, and testing.
Bun is expected to help Anthropic scale up its code generation tool, Claude Code. Claude Code, officially launched in May, has been adopted by major companies including Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce, and has generated $1 billion in annualized revenue.
As of now, the financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed, but this move marks a significant step for Anthropic into the developer tools space.
Previously, Anthropic had also received stronger support from major investors. Last month, Microsoft and Nvidia announced plans to invest up to $15 billion in Anthropic, the latest in a collaboration driven by artificial intelligence .
In exchange, Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of Azure cloud computing. The company plans to purchase up to 1 GW of additional computing capacity; it also pledged to use NVIDIA 's Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems to acquire up to 1 GW of computing capacity.
(Article source: CLS)
