Openai sought to deal with any man before —on views on Windsurf

Openai has already been reported in conversations to buy AnySPHERE, the company that makes the Cursor AI cursor assistant, before entering into communication with the rival company Windsurf.

According to CNBCOpenai approached any Ssphere in 2024 and again in 2025, but the conversations were stuck at the same time. Failure to get to a deal led Openai to look elsewhere for potential acquisitions.

Resources familiar with the deal also say Openai is ready to pay $ 3 billion to buy Windsurf, which will make the company’s biggest acquisition to the present.

Openai’s attempt of obtaining an AI Coding Assistant Company complies with Release of DeepSeek R1 In January 2025, which disrupted long -term assumptions about artificial intelligence.

DeepSeek has been reported trained at a part of the cost of the top AI models while delivers comparable performance – challenging the belief that scaling requires enormous computing power, Rattling Markets Financialand raising questions about the billions of AI giant bills.

Related: Openai to release the first ‘open’ language model since GPT-2 in 2019

Openai inches towards profitability but cheaper competitors still a challenge

Openai expects triple its income In 2025 to approximately $ 12.7 billion by selling paid subscriptions for top AI models to individuals and businesses.

The company Exceeded 1 million business subscribers in business In September 2024. However, Openai CEO said Sam Altman giant AI May not earn until 2029.

According to Altman, Openai requires revenues of approximately $ 125 billion to become a intensive capital income.

In February 2025, Altman said the costs of developing AI is dropping significantly. “The cost of using a given AI level falls almost 10x every 12 months,” the CEO write In a post on the blog of February 9.