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Pierre Computer is being acquired by OpenAI

60 points itunpredictable 2 hours ago 24 comments

Legend2440 2 hours ago | parent

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.

itunpredictable 2 hours ago | parent

or how much they got bought for...

passive 2 hours ago | parent

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

RobotToaster 45 minutes ago | parent

The AIs are now on strike.

ImJasonH 2 hours ago | parent

Isn't that literally what's in the first paragraph of the announcement?

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-pierre/

robotresearcher 1 hour ago | parent

It is, but the HN post does not link to that.

10111001 54 minutes ago | parent

> Craftsmanship meets scale for the agentic era

Words have meaning. I really hate PR that just has no respect for language. To me that reads like "Toxic waste, lovingly dumped into the river with a dump truck."

Pedro_Ribeiro 59 minutes ago | parent

Why not just visit the company's website? It would take less effort than writing this comment. Why is HN a hyperbolic bikeshedding chamber where everyone is trying to outnitpick each other?

n2d4 53 minutes ago | parent

Unfortunately, their website is also not very helpful.

You'll have to click the link through to https://code.storage to understand: They host Git servers at scale, especially for agentic companies like Lovable (who create many projects every and need many code repos to store them).

frmrtntn 15 minutes ago | parent

Site currently seems to be broken, as it eventually just returns a "Dang" error message with a picture of a tombstone. How quirky and cute! Just like the insufferable po-mo marketing on the twitter account.

AdamN 1 hour ago | parent

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?

rsanheim 1 hour ago | parent

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

ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | parent

Who? https://pierre.computer/

ferryth 1 hour ago | parent

>Git infrastructure at scale

>Code.Storage powers the largest agentic workloads in the industry to store code and other machine generated artifacts at scale using git.

>Lovable, Poke, Anything, Bolt, Amp, Parahelp, and many others rely on Code.Storage to store their generated code, memory files, design artifacts, legal documents, and other product files and resources that change over time.

paaloeye 7 minutes ago | parent

AI bros buying AI bros. All those companies in the list have ca. 10x inflated valuation.

I bet in 5 years nobody will remember 95% of them.

dist-epoch 1 hour ago | parent

Refreshing, compared to "our journey" and "our mission" slops

katzenq 1 hour ago | parent

The plural of slop is slop.

frangonf 1 hour ago | parent

I read good things about their diffs library: https://diffs.com/

Whenever I see this acquires or hiring of successful products founders or teams by big labs I ask myself if, apart for the usual obvious reasons that any non ai model company would want them, they are also reusing this human talent to build the dataset of "how the sausage is made".

dfhqll 1 hour ago | parent

Musk envy. Cursor was also building large scale git infrastructure. Pierre Computing does the same.

All these companies need success stories but only end up making dev tools, a notoriously unprofitable market. The corporate market is already saturated with LLMs/agents because of the dictatorial forced rollout, so there is actually no growth in sight at all.

brown9-2 58 minutes ago | parent

you think OpenAI needs success stories and is therefore pivoting to dev tools?

qrwte 53 minutes ago | parent

Yes ELIZA, OpenAI needs success stories. As does Anthropic. This zero growth LLM coding scam will collapse at some point.

hmokiguess 34 minutes ago | parent

what else is left out there to build and get bought