When it was broken the news that the Openi AI coding company is in talks for the acquisition of Wind Surf Billion for 3 billionOne of the first questions in the mind of anyone who followed this place was the possibility: “Why not buy the cursor creator’s influence instead?”
However, the Openi Startup Fund has been an investor in any part, which is a cursor maker, rapidly growing coding assistant Round At the end of 2023. (Anywhere is often sent by the name of its product, cursor.) This shows that the Openi really approached anywhere from any place in 2024 and about a potential acquisition earlier this year, according to A. Report from CNBC. Negotiations failed. Instead, has been in conversation to collect investment about infer Billion worth 10 billionBloomberg reported last month.
The desire to move towards the acquisition of the acquisition with another Open coding Assistant Maker explains the extent to which a piece of code generation market is to be important for the Chat GPT maker. Wind surf is generating about $ 40 million in annual repeated revenue (ARR), Tech Crunch reported Meanwhile, in February, the alleged inferior cursor earns about $ 200 million based on ARR.
While Openai’s Codex CLI “Agent”, who is the company Issued on WednesdayCould also write and edit the code, its attempt to buy wind surf shows that the company does not want to wait for CLI to get a traction with users.