Anaconda, the trusted foundation for AI-native development, has acquired Outerbounds, the company behind Metaflow, an open-source AI and machine learning orchestration framework, marking a significant step in Anaconda’s evolution into the first unified platform spanning the entire AI-native development software lifecycle.
The Austin-based company, which counts more than 50 million users and 21 billion downloads, combines its secure packages, verified dependencies, and trusted environments with Outerbounds’ end-to-end orchestration, experiment tracking, artifact management, and scalable compute across cloud, data platforms, and hybrid environments. Outerbounds was built on Metaflow, which originated at Netflix to handle demanding AI and ML workloads, and is trusted by organizations including Realtor.com, GE HealthCare, and Warner Bros.
The acquisition addresses a growing enterprise challenge: AI-generated code now accounts for nearly half of all new code but produces 1.7 times as many defects as human-written code, and 80% of dependencies recommended by AI coding assistants carry known risks. Anaconda will continue contributing to Metaflow as an open-source project alongside its platform development.
KEY QUOTES:
The future belongs to AI-native development, where the AI model is the core of how applications are built, not something bolted on at the end. Until now, no other platform has spanned the entire AI-native development lifecycle. For the first time, with Anaconda and Outerbounds, enterprises can securely scale complex, compound AI systems from idea all the way to production on the infrastructure they already trust.
David DeSanto, CEO, Anaconda
Anaconda has spent more than a decade earning the trust of the world’s largest enterprises, and that trust is exactly the foundation our customers need to take AI systems all the way to production with confidence. Together, we can give data scientists and AI engineers everything they need to move from secure environments to production-grade orchestration, and turn AI innovation into real, measurable outcomes.
Ville Tuulos, Co-Founder and CEO, Outerbounds