Is it just me or is trivial software getting overfunded? How does an AI skin on vscode or conda have a big enough moat for these crazy rounds?
Anaconda Raises $150M Series C
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#22Where's Anaconda at these days? I've not touched it since starting out with Python and don't think I've touched it since discovering other package managers. Anyone here using it regularly in 2025, is there anything I'm missing out on?
Setting up a python environment for ML work (pytorch + Nvidia) is simpler with Anaconda, it's a pure dependency nightmare doing it with something else.
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#23Congratulations to Astral (makers of uv). At these valuations you are now all billionaires. You have earned the commas and car doors that open like \__/.
What is their revenue?
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#24150M from people who never used Anaconda...
I cannot imagine using Anaconda with how many issues I had. Virtual Environments have been superior.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are they going to find out though?
They have a form where they ask for an email before giving the download link. My guess is that + a bit of telemetry.
This will also happen if you use condaforge, which can be downloaded freely. Condaforge will also download from the main channel if the recipe requires it.
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#26For people asking who uses Anaconda nowadays. I work with less technical users and the problem with UV is that the installation instructions are slightly more complicated. For users that just want conda to download python + a bunch of packages and won't ever bother to create environments, anaconda will always be superior. Now, if UV bundles with a "default python version" with an installer, that may change things.
the other use case is if your env requires compiled binaries, you can't do that with uv. i.e., the Intel MKL package is available on conda but not on pypi. We've also run into this with some cuda related packages.
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#28other than having "AI" in the name, I didn't see anything about its "AI Platform" that's actually AI in a meaningful way
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#29Anaconda != the conda ecosystem != Python
Everyone who is comparing Anaconda and conda to Astral and uv is missing that the conda ecosystem is language-agnostic while uv is python specific. uv won't help you install gfortran, for example. It is not a replacement, unless you only do python (and use at most common non-python libraries that are available on PyPI).
On the other hand you don't have to use anything associated with Anaconda to use the conda ecosystem. Alternative package managers like mamba and pixi rely on the conda-forge channel instead. Pixi in particular (https://pixi.sh/) is sort-of the uv for the conda ecosystem workflow-wise, and works pretty well if you want that.
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#30Heh, looks like they've just pivoted to calling what they do advancing AI and managed to mention AI enough times to get a big new valuation.
Seriously, if you've ever used them before, check out their website now. "Advance AI with Clarity and Confidence", "Simplify, safeguard, and accelerate AI value with open source.", "Millions Rely on Anaconda to Advance Their AI Initiatives"
What does any of that mean? No idea, seems like the actual product is the same conda.