Report: OpenAI is buying AI-powered developer platform Windsurf — what happens to its support for rival LLMs?

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI appears to be on the verge of making its biggest public acquisition to date with an agreement reached to buy Windsurf, the software developer tool powered by large language models (LLMs), to the tune of $3 billion, according to Bloomberg (unpaywalled Yahoo reprint). Rumors have swirled around such a deal for weeks, but now it appears to be happening as early as today, May 6, 2025, with Windsurf CEO and co-founder Varun Mohan posting on X last night: “Big announcement tomorrow!” According to Bloomberg, the deal is meant to “help OpenAI take on rising competition in the market for AI-driven coding assistants — systems capable of tasks like writing code based on natural language prompting,” and Windsurf had been in talks with venture capital firms to raise another round of private investment around that $3 billion valuation, up from $1.25 billion last ye ... Read full article.