Openai is said to be in talks to buy the code for $ 3 billion, with news signed later this week

Bloomberg reported that Codeium, the famous artificial intelligence coding tool, is holding conversations by Openai for about 3 billion dollars.

If the deal occurs, Openai will be placed in direct competition with a number of other artificial intelligence aid providers, including Anysphere, the index maker, which Openai supported from the Openai Startup box.

A person familiar with Cursor’s Coursable said that the acquisition can endanger the OpenAi starting box, given that he is one of the largest index’s investors. It is not clear whether Openai approached the indicator about the acquisition.

In addition to the sources that told Bloomberg, there is some additional evidence that occurs between the two companies. Two days ago, Windsurf users received an email that he said was due to an advertisement later this week, they have the option to lock access to the coding editor at $ 10 a month.

The chief official of Openai Kevin Weil was also released Yesterday’s video Praise Windsurf capabilities.

The codium was in talks to raise new money in A. 2.85 billion dollars evaluation Under Kleiner Perkins, Techcrunch was mentioned in February. The company has reached about $ 40 million of annual repeated revenues (ARR), according to our reports. This revenue operating rate is much lower than Cursor’s, which is said to make $ 200 million based on ARR. The indicator was holding capital collection in about 10 billion dollars evaluationBloomberg mentioned last month.

Since its establishment in 2021 by Farun Mohan, his childhood friend and colleague at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Douglas Chen, formerly Corium, $ 243 million of investors including Greenoaks Capital and General Catalyst, according to Pitchbook data.

Additional reports by Sarah Perez