OpenAI was reportedly in talks to purchase Anysphere, the corporate that produces the Cursor AI coding assistant, earlier than getting into into talks with rival firm WindSurf.
In keeping with CNBC, OpenAI approached Anysphere in 2024 and once more in 2025, however talks stalled each occasions. Failing to reach at a deal led OpenAI to look elsewhere for potential acquisitions.
Sources conversant in the deal additionally say OpenAI is ready to pay $3 billion to buy WindSurf, which might make it the corporate’s largest company acquisition to this point.
OpenAI’s tried acquisition of an AI coding assistant firm follows the release of DeepSeek R1 in January 2025, which shattered long-held assumptions about synthetic intelligence.
DeepSeek was reportedly skilled at a fraction of the price of main AI fashions whereas delivering comparable efficiency — difficult the assumption that scaling requires large computing energy, rattling financial markets, and elevating questions concerning the billions spent by US AI giants.
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OpenAI inches towards profitability however cheaper rivals nonetheless a problem
OpenAI expects to triple its revenue in 2025 to roughly $12.7 billion by promoting paid subscriptions for its main AI fashions to people and companies.
The corporate surpassed 1 million premium business subscribers in September 2024. Nonetheless, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned the AI big might not be profitable until 2029.
In keeping with Altman, OpenAI wants revenues of roughly $125 billion to show a revenue on its capital-intensive enterprise.
In February 2025, Altman mentioned that AI improvement prices were dropping dramatically. “The fee to make use of a given degree of AI falls about 10x each 12 months,” the CEO wrote in a Feb. 9 weblog put up.
Regardless of this, excessive prices and centralization points proceed to plague large-scale company AI builders, who should compete with extra nimble open-source counterparts.
Dr. Ala Shaabana — co-founder of the OpenTensor Basis — just lately instructed Cointelegraph that the discharge of DeepSeek solidified open-source AI as a serious contender towards centralized AI techniques.
Shaabana added that the decrease value of open-source techniques proves that AI doesn’t want billions of {dollars} to scale or obtain high-performance benchmarks.
