Posit PBC, a privately owned company headquartered in the US, founded in 2009, operates with approximately 370 employees, specializing in software development as an open-source data science company.
On August 25, 2026, Posit PBC demonstrated AI governance capabilities within its Workbench platform, showcasing how IT administrators can control accessible AI providers and models, enforce user and group-level settings, and audit AI contributions to analyses. Earlier, on August 18, 2026, the company announced that Posit Assistant, its AI coding agent integrated into Positron and RStudio, can now connect to models hosted on Databricks workspaces. This preview functionality leverages Databricks Model Serving and Unity AI Gateway.