Pierre Computer is being acquired by OpenAI (twitter.com)
24 points by itunpredictable an hour ago
AdamN 3 minutes ago
I'm interested in knowing more about the company itself. How many people is/was it? Were they working all in an office together or local-remote, or fully globally distributed? Was the focus massive scale, or ultra-low latency (for agent iteration), or agent-first (but human in the loop) usecases that could be enabled by having core control of a git service and the wrappers around it?
Legend2440 44 minutes ago
I wish these "acquired by" announcements started with an explanation of what the startup was in the first place.
I had never heard of them before and have no clue what they do or why OpenAI wanted to buy them.
ImJasonH 23 minutes ago
Isn't that literally what's in the first paragraph of the announcement?
passive 25 minutes ago
As someone with a cat who used to be named "Vito", but eventually ended up as "Pierre", I'm going to assume "Pierre Computer" somehow makes your AI act more French. :P
itunpredictable 41 minutes ago
or how much they got bought for...
ChrisArchitect 2 minutes ago
DavCreator 13 minutes ago
rsanheim 3 minutes ago
nooooo.
I mean good for the team, I'm sure they will make out quite nicely.
But it was really great to see high quality OSS being extracted from their enterprise-focused https://code.storage/ service. Not I imagine the oss updates and new libs will decline, maybe not right away, but eventually, especially as they get rolled into whatever the product-offering of the week is that altman cooks up.
Oh well. so it goes