Note that this is fundamentally different from the Astral acquisition. At the end of their announcement, they stated:

> Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026.

And earlier in the article:

> Joining OpenAI allows us to extend the mission we started with Cirrus Labs: building new kinds of tooling and environments that make engineers more effective, for both human engineers and agentic engineers.

It isn't a product-led acquisition, but more a talent one.

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fkorotkov 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just want to note that we will continue maintaining and improving our virtualization solutions actually with even greater attention. SaaS options like Cirrus CI and Cirrus Runners will eventually wind down so we can focus on incorporating pieces internally.

	▲	CompoundEyes an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If your scope includes making the Codex web app environments have additional functionality I look forward to it. More enterprise features and yaml backed pipelines.

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hirako2000 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It could also be a suite of product acquisition, the CI could be a product OpenAI is interested in having, but not sell.

	▲	trollbridge 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Much like Astral - acquiring both the product (because they need to use it internally, but don't care about trying to resell / market), and they also want the talent to keep maintaining it / add features they want.

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koolhead17 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is Sam or family an investor in them anyways?

	▲	fkorotkov an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We were 100% bootstrapped with no outside capital or support/advisory.
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