OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer, the code-storage startup behind Codex's file and diff views

Axios reports, citing OpenAI, that OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer, a developer tools startup, as it moves into territory long dominated by Microsoft's GitHub. According to the report, OpenAI plans to fold Pierre's code storage technology into Codex, extending the coding tool into the infrastructure where developers store and manage code.

The report says Pierre's Code Storage technology is already used in Codex. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

OpenAI then announced the deal itself on November 4. It says Pierre is the company behind Code Storage, a service that lets apps store code and track its history using Git, and a family of open-source developer tools. The Codex app already uses Pierre's Trees (file navigation) and Diffs (change review, including an Edit mode) libraries. OpenAI says it wants to build on Git workflows for teams working with coding agents, and ties the deal to Pando, the in-house source control backend it described earlier in the week.

According to OpenAI, Pierre's open-source projects will remain open source, and customers can keep using Code Storage after the acquisition closes while its features are brought into Codex. The closing is subject to customary conditions, including regulatory approvals; until then the two companies stay separate.