Openai Follow up the index before entering into Windsurf talks for $ 3 billion

When the news broke out that Openai was in talks to obtain a company that codes artificial intelligence Windsurf for $ 3 billionIt was likely that one of the first questions that follow any person who follows the space: “Why don’t you buy an Anysphere’s creator instead?”

After all, Openai Startup Fund has been an investment in anysphere, an index maker, since fast -growing coding assistant Seed tour In late 2023. (anything is often referred to as its product, the index). It turned out that Openai has already approached anywhere in 2024 and again earlier this year about a possible acquisition, according to Report from CNBC. The conversations failed. Alternative 10 billion dollars evaluationBloomberg mentioned last month.

Openai’s desire to move to seizure discussions with another assistant coding maker indicates how important it is to capture a slice of the Code Generation market with the ChatGPT maker. Windsurf generates about $ 40 million of repeated annual revenues (ARR), Techcrunch mentioned In February. Meanwhile, an ultraviolet index is said to make about $ 200 million on the basis of ARR.

While Openai’s Codex Cli “Agent”, which company Wednesday releasedThe software instructions can also be written and edited, its attempt to buy Windsurf indicate that the company does not want to wait for the Cli to gain traction with customers.