Anthropic Acquires Bun in First Acquisition as It Looks to Grow Claude Code

Claude Code has already hit $1 billion in revenue since May

AI startup Anthropic has made its first acquisition, scooping up Bun—the engine behind its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent—the company said Tuesday.

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 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.

Anthropic declined to comment on financial details. The Information earlier reported on Anthropic’s bid to acquire Bun.

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Trishla Ostwal

Trishla is an Adweek staff reporter covering AI and tech.