When the news was broken that the Openi AI coding company was talking to Wind Surf to get $ 3 billion, the first question on someone who walks in that place was: “Why not buy cursor creator’s influence instead?”
Nevertheless, the Open Startup Fund has been an investor in any part, which is a cursor, since the era of rapidly growing coding assistant seeds at the end of 2023. Report from CNBC. Negotiations failed. Bloomberg reported last month, instead, the infer is talking to collect investment at a cost of about $ 10 billion.
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. Tech Crunch reports in February, generating about $ 40 million in the Wind Surf annual repeated revenue (ARR). Meanwhile, the alleged inferior cursor earns about $ 200 million based on ARR.
Although Openi’s Codex CLI “Agent”, which the company issued on Wednesday, can also write and edit the code, but its attempt to buy wind surf shows that the company does not want to wait for the CLI to get a traction with consumers.
