{"id":211690,"date":"2025-04-17T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/openai-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b-with-news-expected-later-this-week"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:29:59","slug":"openai-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b-with-news-expected-later-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/openai-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-3b-with-news-expected-later-this-week","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rIgltdnazeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-16\/openai-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-about-3-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from its OpenAI Startup Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition could jeopardize the credibility of the OpenAI Startup Fund, given that it is one of Cursor\u2019s biggest investors, said a person familiar with Cursor\u2019s cap table. It\u2019s not clear whether OpenAI approached Cursor about an acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from its OpenAI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}