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Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

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Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a maker of software development tools that counts rivals OpenAI and Google as clients.

The deal, reportedly for more than $300 million, demonstrates Anthropic's continued interest in exercising greater control over the AI technical stack and suggests that speculation about the commodification of models is on the mark. Frontier models will not be so strong that they serve as a moat or barrier to competition, but the tooling and workflow around those models should provide some cover.

Anthropic has made several recent acquisitions that give it more say in the software that orchestrates model input, output, and tool calls. In December, it snarfed Bun, a JavaScript runtime, package manager, and test runner. Two months later, it bought Vercept, a company focused on AI-mediated computer usage. In April, it admitted...

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