Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool maker formerly known as Codeium, for about $3B, according to Bloomberg’s Rachel Metz, Kate Clark and Shirin Ghaffary, citing a person familiar with the matter.Such a deal would be OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and could help the company take on rising competition in the market for AI-driven coding assistants, though terms haven’t been finalized and talks could still change or fall apart, the source said.
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