
Anthropic Acquires Stainless SDK Startup for $300M
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.
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Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.

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