Windsurf

On Friday, July 12, Windsurf announced that OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf has been canceled. In its place, Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of its R&D employees will join the Google DeepMind team. Unlike the acquisition, Google will not have any control or equity in Windsurf, but will have a non-exclusive license to some of Windsurf's technology. Google...

May 17 - Windsurf published a blog post yesterday (May 16) announcing the launch of its first series of in-house AI software engineering models, SWE-1, which covers the most powerful SWE-1, the lightweight SWE-1-lite, and the streamlined SWE-1-mini. Windsurf emphasized that these models have been specially trained and are not limited to writing code. Windsurf emphasized that these models are specially trained and are not limited to writing code, but rather cover the entire process of software engineering and mark the transition from being just a tool developer to a provider of the underlying technology. Windsurf revealed that the flag...

Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan was recently interviewed by Y Combinator, where Varun talked about the development of Windsurf, what AI is doing now in code, and beyond, and where it's going in the future. The host mentioned that everyone at Windsurf is using Windsurf, and Varun is proud to say that one of the company's heavy Windsurf users is a non-technical person in charge of partnerships. varun ...

April 19 - Before opening acquisition talks with AI programming startup Windsurf, OpenAI considered buying another startup: Cursor, CNBC reported on April 17, local time. Sources close to the matter told CNBC that OpenAI contacted Cursor's seller, Anysphere, last year, and approached it again when Cursor was in the middle of its Cursor's seller, Anysphere, was approached last year and again when Cursor was in the midst of a new boom. But the talks never made substantial progress. OpenAI declined to comment on the matter, while Anysph...

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI-assisted programming tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion (note: the current exchange rate is about 21.967 billion yuan), according to people familiar with the matter. If successful, the acquisition would be OpenAI's largest ever, and would help it compete in the increasingly competitive market for AI-powered programming assistants. Such programming assistant systems are capable of writing code based on natural language cues. The know...