Anthropic Acquires Bun In First Acquisition
(Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:10AM (BeauHD)
from the first-of-many dept.)
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- News link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/12/03/0437256/anthropic-acquires-bun-in-first-acquisition
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Anthropic has made its [1]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 [2]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: [3]Meet Bun, a Speedy New JavaScript Runtime
[1] https://www.adweek.com/media/anthropic-acquires-bun-claude-code/
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mikekrieger_anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-activity-7401686833233076224-n3TI/
[3] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/07/10/000246/meet-bun-a-speedy-new-javascript-runtime
> 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 [2]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: [3]Meet Bun, a Speedy New JavaScript Runtime
[1] https://www.adweek.com/media/anthropic-acquires-bun-claude-code/
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mikekrieger_anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-activity-7401686833233076224-n3TI/
[3] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/07/10/000246/meet-bun-a-speedy-new-javascript-runtime
I actually liked Big Bun... (Score:2)
by outsider007 ( 115534 )
And I cannot lie.
What did Anthropic buy? (Score:1)
Bun was written by one guy, and open-sourced. What exactly did Anthropic buy?
Re:What did Anthropic buy? (Score:4, Informative)
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.