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Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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post #7

Am I reading this right?: a CI company that shuts down CI services with such short notice? Do service providers not think customers have other things to do than simply maintain their existing infrastructure?

Realistically this is what you agree to when you want to use someone else's computer. They can just as easily ran out of money.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

#13
post #7

Am I reading this right?: a CI company that shuts down CI services with such short notice? Do service providers not think customers have other things to do than simply maintain their existing infrastructure?

but they're not

> We are no longer accepting new customers for Cirrus Runners but will continue supporting the service for existing customers through their existing contract periods.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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post #7

Am I reading this right?: a CI company that shuts down CI services with such short notice? Do service providers not think customers have other things to do than simply maintain their existing infrastructure?

Cirrus CI was on a downhill in terms of users and revenue for years now. Most of the customers moved to GHA already.

Plus migration is super easy with Cirrus CLI -- tool to run our CI task definitions locally or in any CI. See https://github.com/cirruslabs/cirrus-cli

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

#16

Wow Cirrus was like the one cool CI thing with first-class Podman support. RIP. Guess I'm looking elsewhere (and not at Dagger which refuses to support rootless Podman).

Thank you! Cirrus CLI is still around and can run your tasks locally in either Podman or Docker. Can also be used in any other CI.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

#17
Note that this is fundamentally different from the Astral acquisition. At the end of their announcement, they stated:

> Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026.

And earlier in the article:

> Joining OpenAI allows us to extend the mission we started with Cirrus Labs: building new kinds of tooling and environments that make engineers more effective, for both human engineers and agentic engineers.

It isn't a product-led acquisition, but more a talent one.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

#18
FTA:

> In 2022, we built Tart, which became the most popular virtualization solution for Apple Silicon, along with several other tools along the way.

from Tart's github:

> [Tart is for] macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations

My (naive?) hypothesis is this kind of expertise is why OpenAI chose to acquihire.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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post #17

Note that this is fundamentally different from the Astral acquisition. At the end of their announcement, they stated: > Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026. And earlier in the article: > Joining OpenAI allows us to extend the mission we started with Cirrus Labs: building new kinds of tooling and environments that make engineers more effective, for both human engineers and agentic engineers. It isn…

It could also be a suite of product acquisition, the CI could be a product OpenAI is interested in having, but not sell.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

#20
post #17

Note that this is fundamentally different from the Astral acquisition. At the end of their announcement, they stated: > Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026. And earlier in the article: > Joining OpenAI allows us to extend the mission we started with Cirrus Labs: building new kinds of tooling and environments that make engineers more effective, for both human engineers and agentic engineers. It isn…

Just want to note that we will continue maintaining and improving our virtualization solutions actually with even greater attention. SaaS options like Cirrus CI and Cirrus Runners will eventually wind down so we can focus on incorporating pieces internally.
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