April 19, 2011 - CNBC reported locally on April 17 that in a meeting with the AI ProgrammingStartups Windsurf prior to the commencement of acquisition negotiations.OpenAI had considered acquiring another startup:Cursor.
Sources familiar with the matter told CNBC that OpenAI reached out to Cursor seller Anysphere last year, and that as Cursor was getting a new wave of popularityRe-exposed to itHowever, the negotiations have never been able to make substantive progress. However, substantive progress in the negotiations was never achieved.
OpenAI declined to comment on the matter, and Anysphere did not respond to a request for comment. Bloomberg reported last month that Anysphere was in the process of raising capital at a valuation of nearly $10 billion (note: about 73.043 billion yuan at current exchange rates).
According to a report by CNBC on Wednesday, OpenAI recently met with Windsurf aboutThe acquisition was made for approximately $3 billion(Approx. RMB 21,913 million at current exchange rates)negotiationsIf the acquisition is successful, Windsurf will become a part of OpenAI. If the acquisition is successful, Windsurf will become an OpenAI Largest acquisition to date.
OpenAI CEO Altman said at 𝕏 that the company's newly released o3 and o4-mini inference models have performed so well programmatically that it's launching a new product, the Codex CLI, designed to make those models even easier to use, and Anysphere announced at 𝕏 that two new large language models are now live in Cursor.
Global tech giants are investing tens of billions of dollars in building data centers with integrated NVIDIA graphics processing units to support the development and operation of big language models. These models are widely used in organizations in areas such as sales, customer service and legal.
In addition, OpenAI has been in contact with more than 20 companies focused on AI programming, according to a person familiar with the matter.