OpenAI on Thursday announced it's acquiring Astral , a small startup that builds popular open source tools for software developers. Astral's team will join OpenAI and help build out its artificial intelligence coding assistant called Codex . The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the acquisition. "Through it all, though, our goal remains the same: to make programming more productive. To build tools that radically change what it feels like to build software," Astral's founder and