AI startup Anthropic has made its first acquisition, scooping up Bun—the engine behind its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent—the corporate stated Tuesday.
Claude Code is a coding agent that lets builders write, debug and interpret code by means of natural-language directions. Claude Code had already hit $1 billion in income six months since its public debut in May, in response to a LinkedIn put up from Anthropic’s chief product officer, Mike Krieger. The coding agent continues to barrel towards scale with prospects like Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce.
Anthropic declined to touch upon monetary particulars. The Information earlier reported on Anthropic’s bid to amass Bun.
The deal comes as Anthropic pursues a extra disciplined development path than rival OpenAI, specializing in enterprise prospects and coding workloads. Internal financials reported by The Wall Street Journal present Anthropic expects to interrupt even by 2028—two years sooner than OpenAI, which continues to take a position closely in infrastructure because it expands into video, {hardware}, and client merchandise.
It additionally marks an elevated push into developer tooling. Anthropic has not too long ago seen backing from a few of tech’s greatest titans. Microsoft and Nvidia pledged as much as $15 billion in contemporary funding in Anthropic final month, alongside a $30 billion dedication from Anthropic to run Claude Code on Microsoft’s cloud. This is along with the $8 billion invested from Amazon and $3 billion from Google.