{"id":663485,"date":"2025-04-18T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/openai-pursued-cursor-maker-before-entering-into-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:50:18","slug":"openai-pursued-cursor-maker-before-entering-into-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-pursued-cursor-maker-before-entering-into-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When news<\/a> broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company\u00a0Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: \u201cWhy not buy Cursor creator Anysphere instead?\u201d<\/p>\n

After all, OpenAI Startup Fund has been an investor in Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, since the quickly-growing coding assistant\u2019s seed round in late 2023. \u00a0(Anysphere is often referred to by its product name, Cursor.) It turns out that OpenAI indeed app<\/a>roached Anysphere in 2024 and again earlier this year about a potential acquisition, \u00a0according to a report from CNBC<\/a>. The talks failed. Instead, Anysphere has been in talks to raise capital at about $10 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported last month.<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s desire to move on to acquisition discussions with another coding assistant maker signals how important capturing a slice of the code generation market has become for the ChatGPT maker. Windsurf is generating about $40 million in annualized recurring revenue (ARR), TechCrunch reported in February. Meanwhile, Anysphere\u2019s Cursor reportedly makes about $200 million on an ARR basis.<\/p>\n

While OpenAI\u2019s Codex CLI \u201cagent,\u201d which the company released Wednesday, can also write and edit code, its attempt to buy Windsurf suggests the company doesn\u2019t want to wait for CLI to gain traction with customers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company\u00a0Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: \u201cWhy not buy Cursor creator Anysphere instead?\u201d After all, OpenAI Startup Fund has been an investor in Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, since the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2170386424.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,152629,154764,92305,141199,70917],"class_list":["post-663485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-anysphere","tag-codeium","tag-ma","tag-openai","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}