The report: Openai bought Windsurf, the platform for the developers of Amnesty International-what is happening to support the LLMS competitor?

Openai appears to be about to conduct the largest public acquisition so far with an agreement reached to buy Windsurf, the software developer tool supported by large language models (LLMS), to 3 billion dollars, according to what it said. Bloomberg (Unpaywalled Yahoo reprinted).

Rumors about such a deal have moved for weeks, but now it seems that they are happening early today, May 6, 2025, with Windsurf CEO and co -founder Farun Mohan published on X last night: “A big advertisement tomorrow!”

According to Bloomberg, the deal aims to “help Openai to face the increasing competition in the market for coding assistants driven by artificial intelligence-systems capable of tasks such as writing code based on claim in the natural language, and Windsurf were talking with investment capital companies to raise another round of private investment on this topic worth $ 3 billion, from $ 1.25 a year the past.

The startup company, formerly known as job and subsequent codes, was established in 2021 by the graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Varon Mohan and Douglas Chen, initially as “Safety -focused LLM Tools Group that offers smart symbol suggestions in the code base context,” as Venturebeat mentioned last year.

When she gained more users, her ambitions grew, and reached a climax in launching the integrated development environment (IDE) November 2024Thorn Microsoft visual studio codeAnd rename the company after that. Windhorf responded Now it is considered more than 800,000 developed users And 1000 institutions as customers.

It is far from the only game in the city when it comes to LLM IDES and Dev, although: Openai According to what was reported in talks to buy other similar and competitive emerging, an indicator,There is of course Q amazon developer and Copilot also. But all of them are shared in their opinion that LLMS models and artificial intelligence models will change the development of software in the foreseeable future, or write a symbol in the blink of an eye that will take human developers minutes, hours or days to do them manually.

What will happen to support Windsurf and submit it to LLMS other than Openai?

For users, integration with Openai will undoubtedly raise questions.

Part of Windsurf’s attractiveness is that it is somewhat unprecedented, as developers who use it can choose with LLM who want to help them in writing code.

Currently, many large language style options for its chat interface provides, including a surfing base model, which is an accurate variable of Lama 3.1 70b from META, while the first model depends on Meta the largest Lama 3.1 405B and is combined with the internal thinking tools of Windsorf to support more complicated in coding.

Subscribers can also access external models such as the GPT-4O from Openai and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, allowing flexibility in choosing the model depending on the state of use.

Will Openai seek to remove user option to determine LLMS outside LLMS and restrict them to the model families of Openai such as GPT-4O, O3, O4, etc?

We will see, but I am very doubt about it, given that the Windsurf works have succeeded in part on the elasticity of their tools. It is also possible to raise complaints about anti -competition measures and can lead to some potential lawsuits.

Using and playing for data aims to enhance Openai models against competitors in the coding space?

Instead, I imagine that Openai is looking at the Windsurf acquisition as a means not only to acquire a famous developer tool that plays well with its own models, but as a way to collect a lot of user data and use – and from this, you can see types of developers who use competing models such as vibrant and competing variables on what is related to observation, and search for if it is There is something related to vibrant comments. On these fronts.

Either way, it is a “large Frekin deal”-to reformulate former President Joe Biden-and it will undoubtedly have many long-range ripple effects at the base of the entire users in Windsurf, a broader group of developers and Acting Dev.

Indeed, Windsurf’s Discord server is filled with posts from users who are preparing for the worse – an increase in prices or new access levels that collect and use it on ChatGPT subscribers or API Openai developers.

We will track and report what we reveal, and it is useful for technical decision makers. Stay followers!

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