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Anaconda Inc., the trusted foundation for AI-native development, today announced the acquisition of Outerbounds, the company behind Metaflow, the open source AI/ML orchestration framework trusted by some of the world's most sophisticated engineering organizations, including Realtor.com, GE HealthCare, and Warner Brothers. The acquisition marks a significant step in Anaconda's evolution from the world's most trusted foundation for developing enterprise AI, to the first unified platform spanning the entire AI-native development software lifecycle.
Anaconda has more than 50 million users and 21 billion downloads.
95% of the Fortune 500 rely on Anaconda.
AI-created code now accounts for nearly half of all new code but produces 1.7x more defects than human-written code.
80% of dependencies recommended by AI coding assistants carry known risks.
Outerbounds built on Metaflow, which originated at Netflix for demanding AI/ML workloads.
Anaconda committed to continued development of Metaflow as open-source.
AI is redefining how software is built. AI-native applications are fundamentally different from traditional software: the AI model becomes the core, and everything else built around it is secondary. The result is a new class of software that is nondeterministic, agent-driven, and exponentially more complex. Human developers are still directing this work, setting intent, reviewing output, and making architectural decisions, but the volume of code flowing through enterprise pipelines has expanded far beyond what any team could manually verify. AI-created code now accounts for nearly half of all new code, but produces 1.7x more defects than human-written code, and 80% of dependencies recommended by AI coding assistants carry known risks. The bottleneck is no longer writing code, but managing everything that code depends on, across distributed infrastructure, with reproducible, secure, and consistent results.
With more than 50 million users and 21 billion downloads, Anaconda has long been the starting point for compound AI systems and data science work. Complete with secure packages, verified dependencies, trusted environments, reproducible builds, and curated open source AI models, that foundation now extends all the way to production. With the acquisition of Outerbounds, Anaconda customers benefit from the only end-to-end enterprise AI stack where trusted distribution and environments, governed AI model deployment, and production-grade agentic workflows live under one roof. Outerbounds was purpose-built to give data scientists and AI/ML engineers enterprise-ready workflow orchestration that is the building block for compound AI systems. Built on Metaflow, which originated at Netflix to handle some of the world's most demanding AI/ML workloads, Outerbounds provides end-to-end orchestration, experiment tracking, artifact management, and scalable compute across cloud, data platforms, and hybrid environments.
That cloud-agnostic, bring-your-own-infrastructure model mirrors how Anaconda has always operated: meeting teams where they are, working within their existing environments, and never requiring lock-in for secure, enterprise-grade capabilities. The new combined platform is built for the realities enterprises face today: always-on systems where human teams and AI agents must move fast together without sacrificing security or governance. By bringing together workflow orchestration, compute management, experiment tracking, and enterprise governance into a single platform, Anaconda provides AI agents the secure foundation they need to succeed. Organizations now have a trusted layer to build, iterate, and operate enterprise-grade AI systems at scale, all within their own environments, under their own controls.
About Anaconda
Anaconda, the leader in advancing AI innovation, is the trusted foundation for AI-native development that empowers builders and enterprises to secure, orchestrate, and accelerate data and AI at scale. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust, Booz Allen Hamilton and over 50 million users rely on the value the Anaconda Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. With 21 billion downloads and growing, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation. Anaconda is available across hybrid AI environments and cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake and more with backing from world-class investors including Insight Partners.
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