Despite having abandoned his plans to become a profit company, Openai Go ahead with its business activity, as it has shown with the according to the one that has arrived to Buy Windsurfa startup dedicated to the development of an AI assistant for code development. According to Bloomberg, the Price that Openai will pay for it is around 3,000 million dollars.
Windsurf, which until not long ago was called Codeium, had been in negotiations with several investors for a while, including General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins, to close a financing round that would have valued it precisely at 3,000 million dollars. Finally Openai has decided to incorporate it into your company.
Last August its valuation amounted to 1,250 million dollars after closing a financing round of 150 million dollars in which the General Catalyst investment participated. Other investors who had previously trusted the company are Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks.
With this agreement, the operation becomes the largest size for OpenAi to date. The company has made several purchases in recent years to improve the capacity of several of its products and AI services. Among other acquisitions, he kept the search startup and analytics of rockset databases, with the aim of offering better infrastructure for their company products.
Apparently, the plans that Sam Altman have for their assets are Use them as a complement to code writing capabilities with which chatgpt already has. As you have launching new models, OpenAi has been improving them, but everything indicates that it has decided to accelerate, in view of the fact that the market, and competition, begin to squeeze. Meanwhile, Openai continues to win users, which went from 300 million active weekly users in last December to 400 million in February.
