Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf

Anysphere, the AI ​​coding index, grows very quickly so that it is not sold on the market, even to Openai, says a source near the company Techcrunch.

It was a hot goal. The index is one of the most popular coding tools for Amnesty International, and its revenues were increasing oriented-doubled on average every two months, according to another source. The average annual annual revenue for Anysphere is about 300 million dollars, according to two people.

The company previously moved away from early acquisitions with Openai, after the Chatgpt maker approached the index, two sources close to the company confirmed, and previously reported CNBC. Anysphere also received other acquisition offers that the company did not think, according to one of these sources.

A person close to the company said that the index rejected the offers because the startup wanted to remain independent. Instead, Isfiri was in capital collection talks with a rating of about $ 10 billion, Bloomberg said last month.

Although Nab Anysphere was not, Openai was not abandoned by purchasing a well -known Amnesty International coding tool. Openai spoke to more than 20 others, CNBC said.

After that, it became serious about the fastest growing coding of artificial intelligence, with a $ 3 billion acquisition, according to Bloomberg last week. While Windsurf is a relatively smaller company, ARR has about $ 100 million, up from $ 40 million in ARR in February, according to a source.

Windsurf is also popular with the developer community, and its coding product has been designed to work with old institutions systems. Windsurf did not respond to Techcrunch request for comment. Openai refused to comment on acquisitions.

Openai is likely to shop as it is looking for the following growth areas as competitors such as Gemini’s Gemini and Chinese Deepseek put the price pressure on reaching the basic models.

Moreover, Antarbur and Google recently released Amnesty International models that outperform Openai models on coding standards, making it an increasingly preferred option for developers.

Although Openai can create an artificial intelligence coding assistant, buying a popular product already for developers means that the Chatgpt maker will not have to start from the zero point to build this work.

Certainly, the VCS who invest in startups for developers is definitely monitoring. “They will be a acquisition of the application layer. It is my existence for them,” Chris Farmer, his partner and CEO of Openai on Openai’s strategy, told Techcrunch for the company.