Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic 收购了 OpenAI、Google 和 Cloudflare 都在使用的开发工具初创公司
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week that the company was in talks to acquire Stainless, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for more than $300 million.
Anthropic 周一宣布，已收购初创公司 Stainless。该公司由前 Stripe 工程师 Alex Rattray 创立，其软件被包括 OpenAI 和 Google 在内的多家竞争对手 AI 实验室广泛使用。Anthropic 未披露交易条款。不过，《The Information》上周报道称，Anthropic 正商谈以超过 3 亿美元的价格收购这家由红杉资本（Sequoia Capital）和安德森·霍洛维茨基金（Andreessen Horowitz）支持的初创公司。
The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said Stainless customers will still own the SDKs they’ve generated to date and have full rights to modify and extend them however they wish.
此次收购将使 Anthropic 的竞争对手失去一家关键的基础设施供应商。Anthropic 向 TechCrunch 表示，将逐步停止所有托管的 Stainless 产品，包括其 SDK 生成器。Anthropic 发言人表示，Stainless 的客户仍将拥有他们迄今为止生成的 SDK，并拥有根据需要修改和扩展这些 SDK 的全部权利。
The 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. Rattray developed software that could take API specifications and turn them into production-ready SDKs across multiple programming languages, including Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Go, and Java.
这家总部位于纽约的初创公司成立于 2022 年，因实现软件开发工具包（SDK）——即开发者用于与 API 交互的库——的创建和维护自动化，而在新兴的 AI 行业中崭露头角。Rattray 开发的软件能够获取 API 规范，并将其转化为支持多种编程语言（包括 Python、TypeScript、Kotlin、Go 和 Java）的生产级 SDK。
It became a popular tool because the platform automatically updates the SDKs as APIs change and eliminated the time-consuming process of manually maintaining them. The technology is particularly valuable to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Replicate, Runway, and Cloudflare that are building AI agents that can connect to external software and complete tasks on behalf of users.
它之所以成为热门工具，是因为该平台能在 API 发生变化时自动更新 SDK，从而省去了手动维护的繁琐过程。这项技术对于 Anthropic、OpenAI、Google、Replicate、Runway 和 Cloudflare 等正在构建 AI 智能体的公司尤为重要，这些智能体需要连接外部软件并代表用户完成任务。
Stainless’s SDK tools are an easy way to build and maintain those connections — but going forward, the tools will only be available to Anthropic, not its competitors. According to Anthropic, Stainless software has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of its API.
Stainless 的 SDK 工具是构建和维护这些连接的简便方法，但未来这些工具将仅供 Anthropic 使用，不再向其竞争对手开放。据 Anthropic 称，自其 API 推出初期以来，Stainless 软件就一直为其所有官方 SDK 的生成提供支持。
“I started Stainless because SDKs deserve as much care as the APIs they wrap,” Rattray said in a press release posted Monday. “Anthropic was one of the first teams to bet on this with us. We have been watching what developers have built on Claude over the last few years, which made bringing our teams together an easy decision. The team gets to keep doing the work we love, on the platform where it matters most.”
“我创立 Stainless 是因为 SDK 应该像它们所封装的 API 一样受到重视，”Rattray 在周一发布的新闻稿中表示。“Anthropic 是最早与我们合作并押注于此的团队之一。过去几年，我们一直在关注开发者在 Claude 上构建的内容，这使得合并团队成为一个轻松的决定。我们的团队可以继续在最重要的平台上从事我们热爱的工作。”