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Rumor: OpenAI in Negotiations to Acquire Windsurf Business Valued at 3 Billion Dollars

Reports indicate that OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, the developer of IDE software for coding with AI assistance, with a proposed purchase value of $3 billion. Originally known as Codeium, Windsurf’s IDE has a selling point of AI-assisted code writing similar to Cursor or Replit, attracting major AI developers like Microsoft with Visual Studio Code in Agent mode and Anthropic, as well as OpenAI attempting to showcase this feature.

If this deal goes through, it would be the largest acquisition by OpenAI to date.

Source: CNBC

TLDR: OpenAI is considering acquiring Windsurf, a developer of AI-assisted IDE software, in a deal worth $3 billion, which would be OpenAI’s largest acquisition yet.

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