OpenAI announced on November 4 that it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc. OpenAI said the acquisition will expand Codex's tools for building, understanding and reviewing code.
Pierre describes itself as a software company that produces "low level, composable product infrastructure for machine work." Its commercial product is Code Storage, and it maintains three open-source projects: Diffs, Trees and DiffsHub. The company has also published technical writing on code highlighting and rendering diffs.
OpenAI's announcement summary does not give a price. As of publication, Pierre's own website made no mention of the deal.
The deal adds code storage and code-review infrastructure to Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, rather than another model. Teams building on Codex should watch whether Code Storage keeps running as a standalone service after the deal closes, and whether Diffs, Trees and DiffsHub stay maintained in the open.