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Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?


$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.

There's certainly some possibility that this is the case — though it makes me wonder just how bad OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft has gotten if they no longer have access to GitHub, which surely dwarfs any amount of code that Windsurf could provide. There's some sense in this — OpenAI has also announced a social media project, likely also an attempt at maintaining lines to unique data sources while providing more native ways to improve distribution and " commoditize their complement". Mr. Cook approved a plan to double the team’s chip budget, but Apple’s finance chief, Luca Maestri, reduced the increase to less than half that, the people said.

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