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Anthropic Acquires Dev Tools Startup Used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Stainless, a New York-based startup founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
TL;DR
- Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a startup specializing in SDK automation.
- Rival AI labs like OpenAI and Google also use Stainless's software.
- Anthropic plans to discontinue hosted Stainless products, impacting competitors.
- Stainless's technology automates the creation and maintenance of SDKs for API interaction.
- The acquisition removes a key infrastructure supplier from Anthropic's competitors.