OpenAI is reportedly negotiating a $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf, an AI tool designed to assist with coding. Windsurf, previously known as Codeium, is a competitor to other AI coding tools like Cursor.
The potential acquisition aims to strengthen OpenAI's position in the competitive generative AI market. Companies like Google, Anthropic, and xAI are also investing heavily in this area.
This move follows OpenAI's recent release of new AI models, o3 and o4-mini, capable of analyzing images. Windsurf is popular among developers for quickly generating code for new software.