{"id":33999,"date":"2025-04-19T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33999\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:11:11","slug":"openai-pursued-cursor-maker-before-entering-into-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33999\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/16\/openai-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-codeium-for-3b-with-news-expected-later-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Windsurf for $3 billion<\/a>, 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, OpenAI Startup Fund has been an investor in Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, since the quickly growing coding assistant\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/10\/11\/anysphere-raises-8m-from-openai-to-build-an-ai-powered-ide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seed round<\/a> in late 2023. (Anysphere is often referred to by its product name, Cursor.) It turns out that OpenAI indeed approached Anysphere in 2024 and again earlier this year about a potential acquisition, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/04\/17\/openai-looked-at-cursor-before-considering-deal-with-rival-windsurf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">report from CNBC<\/a>. The talks failed. Instead, Anysphere has been in talks to raise capital at about<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/07\/cursor-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-10b-valuation-as-ai-coding-sector-booms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> $10 billion valuation<\/a>, Bloomberg reported last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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), <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/19\/ai-coding-startup-codeium-in-talks-to-raise-at-an-almost-3b-valuation-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a> in February. Meanwhile, Anysphere\u2019s Cursor reportedly makes about $200 million on an ARR basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While OpenAI\u2019s Codex CLI \u201cagent,\u201d which the company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/16\/openai-debuts-codex-cli-an-open-source-coding-tool-for-terminals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released Wednesday<\/a>, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company\u00a0Windsurf for $3 billion, one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,19807,1942,19808,6316,1318,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-33999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anysphere","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-codeium","12":"tag-mergers-and-acquisitions","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114366924930883547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}