OpenAI goes for Windsurf for 3,000 million dollars, according to Bloomberg

As he has advanced Bloomberg and has confirmed later CNBC citing its own sources, OpenAi is negotiating the purchase of a programming assistance startup to compete directly in the developer tool market. It’s about Windsurf.

Windsurf is a startup with a programming assistant similar to COPILOT. And OpenAi is valuing a possible acquisition for 3,000 million dollars.

Why is it important. The purchase would be a strategic movement to compete in the software development market in the AI ​​era. Openai would go into direct competition with Microsoft (its largest investor) and Anysphere, manufacturer of Cursora similar tool.

• This operation tells us something about Openai: not only wants a great general use model, but to move to at least one more concrete and niche product.

Between the lines. This purchase can generate tensions. If OpenAi Buy Windsurf, it will compete directly with the suite Microsoft development, especially with Github Copilot, which dominates the code assistant market with AI. It would not be The first recent trenching between Openai and Microsoft.

The context. He Rumore Rumore It arrives just after the launch of OPENAI O3 and O4-MODE and the closure of a financing round of 40,000 million. The IA developed tool market is exploiting. The trend Vibe Codingwhich seeks to generate code based on short descriptions, is being one of the fashions of the year.

Windsurf competes in this space with cursor (valued at 10,000 million), Replit and Microsoft solutions. With only 40 million dollars in annual income (five times less than cursor), Windsurf seems more a commitment to talent and technology than for the business they already generate.

And now what. The conversations are still underway and the agreement is not closed yet, according to Bloomberg and CNBC. If concretized, the shadow of American anti -protection regulators would soon appear. Especially for the complex relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft.

For developers, this purchase would mean some questions about possible changes in the prices and integration of Windsurf with OpenAi APIS.

In Xataka | Openai’s hypothetical social network does not want to connect people. Want your data to train your AI

Outstanding image | Windsurf, Openai, Xataka with Mockuuuup Studio