When the news spread that Opeli talked about obtaining a company coding AI Windsurf for $ 3 billion, one of the first questions about the proven fact that someone following the space was likely: “Why not buy a cursor, instead?”
Finally, the OPENAI startup fund was an investor in Anysphere, the creator of the cursor, because the rapidly growing cod assistant assistant at the end of 2023 (according to the product name is often called potential acquisition, it is often determined by its product name. CNBC report. The talks failed. Instead, Kanysphere talked about raising capital with a valuation of about $ 10 billion, reports Bloomberg last month.
OpenAI willingness to go to a discussion with one other coding assistant signals how vital it was to capture a piece of code generating a code for the CHATGPT manufacturer. Windsurf generates about $ 40 million of annual repetitive revenues (ARR), reports TechCrunch in February. Meanwhile, the Anysphere cursor reportedly earns around $ 200 million on the ARR basis.
While the Codex Cli Openai “Agent”, which the company has published on Wednesday, can even write and edit the code, its attempt to buy Windsurf suggests that the company does not want to wait for Cli to get to go with customers.