OpenAI Startup Fund, which has invested in Anysphere since its seed round of late 2023, is the company that created Cursor. (Anysphere is sometimes referred to as Cursor. OpenAI approached Anysphere about a possible acquisition in 2024, and again earlier thisyear. Report from CNBCThe talks fell through. Bloomberg reported last month that Anysphere was in talks with investors to raise capital for a valuation of about $10 billion.
OpenAI’s desire to move forward with acquisition discussions with another coding assistance maker shows how important it has become to ChatGPT to capture a piece of the code-generation market. TechCrunch reported that Windsurf generates about $40 million annually in recurring revenue. Anysphere’s Cursor, meanwhile, reportedly generates about $200 million in ARR.
OpenAI’s Codex CLI agent, which the company released on Wednesday, can also edit and write code. However, the company’s attempt to purchase Windsurf suggests that it doesn’t want CLI to gain traction among customers. Marina Temkin, a TechCrunch reporter covering venture capital and startups, is available at
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