OpenAI buys Windsurf for $3B! · AI Developer Accelerator

OpenAI buys Windsurf for $3B!

Huge news!

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy startup Windsurf for $3 Billion according to Bloomberg News.

Windsurf is an AI code editor, similar to Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Windsurf and Cursor are the 2 most prominent players in the AI IDE space right now. Both of them have grown fast and shipped a ton new and innovative features extremely quickly to make software development with AI a breeze. OpenAI buying one of them is a big deal and could shake things up a lot.

For example, Windsurf getting priority access to OpenAI models, or being included in the OpenAI subscription would definitely drive up the adoption for Windsurf and bring even more competition to Cursor.

I'm excited to see where this goes & what both of them come up with next!

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