Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf

The EU coding assistant cursor is growing so quickly, it is growing so quickly, not on the market to sell, even Openai, a source near the company.

It was a warm target. The cursor is one of the most popular coding tools operating in the AI ​​and increased its income astronomically – in the average of two months in an average of two months. According to two people, the current average annual recurring revenue is about $ 300 million.

After approaching Chatgpt Maker from the company to Chatgpt Maker, the company previously moved away from Openai with early purchase discussion CNBC previously reported. AnySphere has also received other acquisitions of the company, according to one of these sources.

The cursor rejected the proposals, because the beginning wants to stay independent, two people close to the company. Instead, there was a negotiation to raise any submarines About $ 10 billion estimateBloomberg gave information last month.

Nabherefhere, Openai, did not refuse to buy the start of the AI ​​coding tool. CNBC reports that Openai talked to more than 20 others.

Then, at the beginning of the next fastest growing AI coding, it was serious with Windsurf a $ 3 billion purchase offerBloomberg gave information last week. Although Windsurf is a relatively smaller company, the artery is about $ 100 million $ 40 million dollars According to one source in February.

Windsurf also gains popularity with the developer community and is designed to work with Modern Moderal Inherited Enterprises. Windsurf did not meet the demand for TechCrunch’s comments. Openai refused to comment on his talks.

Openai is likely to increase the price pressure to access the basic models, looking like Google’s twins like Google’s twins and China’s DeepSeek.

Moreover Anthropical and Google recently released AI models Openform’s OpenIai’s coding models make an advantage for increasingly developers.

Although Openai can establish its EI coding assistant, while buying a product that is popular with developers, the chatrice manufacturer will not be starting from scratch to build this case.

The VCS, which invests in the beginnings of Developer tools, is certainly followed. In the signal fire, Chris Ferry, the signal fire, which speculates about the partner and CEO, “they will be sold in the app layer. This is available for them.”