# Anthropic Buys Stainless for Over $300 Million: The Quiet SDK Heist That Cut Off OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare - May 19, 2026

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Send us Fan Mail Anthropic Buys Stainless for Over $300 Million: The Quiet SDK Heist That Cut Off OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare - May 19, 2026 Anthropic has acquired four year old New York startup Stainless for more than three hundred million dollars, taking control of the AI powered SDK compiler that quietly ships the official client libraries for OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, Runway, and Meta. Anthropic plans to wind down all hosted Stainless products and restrict the technology to its own ...

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