Openai seeks Anysphere deal before seeing sight as Windsurf

Openai is reportedly holding talks for Anysphere, a company that buys cursor AI coding assistant, ahead of its talks with rival Windsurf.

According to CNBC, Openai approached Anysphere again in 2024 and 2025, but stagnated both times. Failure to reach a deal has led Openai to look for potential acquisitions elsewhere.

Sources familiar with the deal also said Openai is ready to pay $3 billion to buy Windsurf, which will make the company’s largest company acquisition to date.

After Openai released its DeepSeek R1 in January 2025, Openai attempted to acquire AI coding assistant company, which undermined long-term assumptions about artificial intelligence.

DeepSeek’s training is reportedly a small part of the leading AI model, while providing comparable performance, challenging the belief that scale requires massive computing power to shock financial markets and raise questions about the billions of dollars spent by U.S. AI giants.

Related: Openai releases its first “open” language model since GPT-2 in 2019

Openai Inch reaches profitability, but cheaper competitors remain a challenge

Openai expects to split its revenue into approximately $12.7 billion in 2025 by selling paid subscriptions to individuals and businesses.

The company exceeded 1 million premium business users in September 2024. However, Openai CEO Sam Altman said that until 2029, the AI ​​giant may not be profitable.

According to Altman, OpenAI’s revenue is about $125 billion to profit its capital-intensive business.

In February 2025, Ultraman said that AI development costs are falling sharply. “Using a given level of AI level costs about 10 times every 12 months,” the CEO wrote in a February 9 blog post.