OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B

News Openai AI coding company when they are in negotiations Windsurf for $ 3 billionOne of the first questions in the mind of any of the space is probably, “Why will you not get the creator of a cursor instead of?”

After all, the Openai Start Foundation, as a rapidly growing coding assistant, the manufacturer of the cursor was an investor in the cursor seed In late 2023. (AnySphere, often by the name of his product, is called with the cursor. Report from CNBC. Negotiations failed. Instead, there was a negotiation to raise any submarines $ 10 Billion AppraisalBloomberg gave information last month.

Openai’s desire to move to get with another coding assistant, signaling the code to create a slice of the code, it was for Chatgpt Maker. Windsurf, annual recurring income (ARR),) produces about $ 40 million TechCrunch reported in February. Meanwhile, AnySphere’s cursor was reported to be about $ 200 million on a study.

Openai’s Codex Cli “Agent,” company Released on WednesdayThe code can record and edit, the attempt to get Windsurf shows that the company does not want to wait to win traction with customers.