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Openai is ready to acquire Windsurf, a top artificial intelligence -driven coding assistant, in an agreement reportedly worth $ 3 billion.
At the time of writing, the agreement has not yet been completed if it goes through, it would mark Openai’s biggest acquisition to date and signal an aggressive push to dominate the rapidly developing field of AI-Assisted Software Development.
Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, is a product of Exafunction Inc., a start -up that has attracted significant investor attention in the past year, as one of several new tools that translate common languages asks for work code, reducing the need for manual development and in some cases automation of tasks typically handled by junior engineers.
This acquisition would put Openai in more direct competition with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and Anthropic’s AI developing tools, two of the best coding platforms in this room.
Windsurf was recently appreciated at $ 1.25 billion and had been in conversations with investors to raise new funding for a $ 3 billion valuation before Openai stepped in with acquisition of acquisition.
The deal follows Openai’s recent $ 40 billion investment round led by Softbank, pushing the company’s valuation to $ 300 billion.
With such financial support, Openai has the resources to expand its coding solutions and integrate Windsurf’s abilities into its wider ecosystem.
There has been no official public comment from either Openai or Windsurf, but sources suggest that the acquisition could give Openai an advantage in the construction of AI assistants who can better understand and perform complex programming tasks.
The company is probably targeted at a total platform that not only generates functional code, but also adapts to the individual developers’ habits and project needs.
Via Bloomberg
