Anthropic Acquires Bun In First Acquisition

Anthropic has made its first acquisition by buying Bun, the engine behind its fast-growing Claude Code agent. The move strengthens Anthropic's push into enterprise developer tooling as it scales Claude Code with major backers like Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and Google. Adweek reports: Claude Code is a coding agent that lets developers write, debug and interpret code through natural-language instructions. Claude Code had already hit $1 billion in revenue six months since its public debut in May, according to a LinkedIn post from Anthropic's chief product officer, Mike Krieger. The coding agent continues to barrel toward scale with customers like Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce. Further reading: Meet Bun, a Speedy New JavaScript Runtime

What did Anthropic buy?

[rogersc]

Bun was written by one guy, and open-sourced. What exactly did Anthropic buy?

Re:What did Anthropic buy?

[DamnOregonian]

That guy's rights and trademarks and company, along with all of its employees and presumably him.
The multi-ownership nature of the current codebase isn't problematic. Companies run open source projects and are acquired all the time.

I actually liked Big Bun...

[outsider007]

And I cannot lie.