{"id":923399,"date":"2025-04-19T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923399"},"modified":"2025-04-19T08:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:54:31","slug":"openai-in-talks-to-buy-ai-coding-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/19\/openai-in-talks-to-buy-ai-coding-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI in talks to buy AI coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is in talks to buy Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool, for about $3 billion, according to Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the matter. If the deal goes through, it would be OpenAI\u2019s biggest purchase so far. However, the report also said that the deal isn\u2019t final yet and could still change or fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI didn\u2019t comment on the news, and Windsurf \u2014 which used to be called Codeium \u2014 didn\u2019t respond to Reuters\u2019 request for a statement. In 2024, Windsurf had raised $150 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, which gave the company a value of $1.25 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is in talks to buy Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool, for about $3 billion, according to Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the matter. If the deal goes through, it would be OpenAI\u2019s biggest purchase so far. However, the report also said that the deal isn\u2019t final yet and could still change or fall apart. OpenAI didn\u2019t comment on the news, and Windsurf \u2014 which used to be called Codeium \u2014 didn\u2019t respond to Reuters\u2019 request for a statement. In 2024, Windsurf had raised $150 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, which gave the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}