Anaconda Announces Partnership with Prefix.dev to Bring Next-Generation Functionality to conda-build
Empowering builders and enterprises with 3-5x faster package creation while strengthening the entire open source ecosystem
AUSTIN, TX (July 9, 2025) — Anaconda Inc., the leader in advancing AI with open source, today announced a strategic initiative to enhance conda-build, incorporating performance innovations from Prefix.dev’s rattler-build. This collaboration will deliver significant performance improvements for conda package creation while maintaining the trusted conda-build experience that enterprises rely on.
“Introducing this next generation of conda-build reaffirms our commitment to continuous innovation in the conda and greater open source ecosystem,” said Peter Wang, Co-founder and Chief AI and Innovation Officer of Anaconda. “By incorporating proven performance advances from rattler-build, we’re ensuring that conda-build evolves with every challenge, delivering unmatched power and efficiency as the premier solution for building and distributing packages in data science and AI development.”
The enhanced conda-build will leverage Rust-based technology from rattler-build to enable faster package building while ensuring compatibility with existing conda environments and workflows. Initial performance benchmarks show package-building speed improvements of 3-5x, dramatically reducing development time for organizations building custom environments and packages. As the integration supports both the current recipe format and the new standardized format, package maintainers benefit from a smooth migration with ensured compatibility across the ecosystem, simplifying workflows for contributors to both Anaconda and community channels.
“The collaboration between Anaconda and Prefix.dev to bring rattler-build’s innovations to the broader conda ecosystem through conda-build will be a game-changer for the entire conda community,” said Wolf Vollprecht, CEO of Prefix.dev. “We’re excited that Anaconda sees the importance of this to the community and is dedicating investment to improve the entire ecosystem. Our goal is to enable developers to build the most complex software into conda packages with speed and reliability – from Haskell compilers to GPU enabled AI toolchains.”
Availability of the enhanced conda-build is planned for early 2026.
About Anaconda
Anaconda is built to advance AI with open source at scale, giving builders and organizations the confidence to increase productivity, and save time, spend, and risk associated with open source. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust Financial, Booz Allen Hamilton, and over 50 million users rely on the value the Anaconda AI Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. Trusted by 79% of the Global 2000, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation with 21 billion downloads and growing. Anaconda partners with Nvidia, AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle and is backed by world-class investors. Learn more at https://www.anaconda.com.