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Report: OpenAI is buying AI-powered developer platform Windsurf — what happens to its support for rival LLMs?
OpenAI could see which types of developers use rival models such as the Meta Llama variants and Anthropic's Claude, and for what purposes.
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). The startup, formerly known as Exafunction and later Codeium, was founded in 2021 by MIT graduates Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, initially as a “security-focused LLM toolkit that provides intelligent code suggestions in the context of the codebase,” as VentureBeat reported last year. Either way, it’s a “big freakin deal” — to paraphrase former President Joe Biden — and it will undoubtedly have many far-reaching ripple effects throughout Windsurf’s entire userbase and the wider pool of developers and AI-powered dev tools.
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