OpenAI about to buy Windsurf for $3B

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/openai-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-codeium-for-3b-with-news-expected-later-this-week/

OpenAI seems to have realized that LLM-supported coding is one of the biggest markets right now.

Purchasing one of the most popular IDEs together with Cursor tells a lot about the companies strategy.

While I personally do not use Windsurf anymore because of their stupid pricing with tool-tokens and text-tokens, let‘s see if OpenAI will be able to integrate it to their product suite in a different way with the existing $20 subscription.

Are you still using Windsurf? If not, what would be necessary to win you back as a user?

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

With all their spare cash?

JealousJail@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

It seems that investors keep throwing money at them regardless of profitability