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Anysphere , maker of AI slang assistant Cursor , is grow so promptly that it ’s not in the mart to be sell , even to OpenAI , a source close to the troupe order TechCrunch .
It ’s been a spicy mark . Cursor is one of the most pop AI - powered coding tools , and its revenue has been growing astronomically — doubling on average every two months , according to another source . Anysphere ’s current average annual go back revenue is about $ 300 million , according to the two sources .
The company antecedently walked away from early acquisition discussions with OpenAI , after the ChatGPT maker come near Cursor , the two sources closemouthed to the caller confirmed , andCNBC previously reported . Anysphere has also received other acquisition extend that the company did n’t regard , according to one of these source .
Cursor turned down the offers because the startup wants to ride out independent , said the two mass close to the company . rather , Anysphere has been in talks to raise majuscule atabout a $ 10 billion evaluation , Bloomberg reported last month .
Although it did n’t nab Anysphere , OpenAI did n’t give up on buying an established AI slang tool startup . OpenAI mouth with more than 20 others , CNBC reported .
And then it make serious over the next - fastest - growing AI coding startup , Windsurf , with a$3 billion acquisition offer , Bloomberg reported last week . While Windsurf is a comparatively smaller company , its ARR is about $ 100 million , up from$40 million in ARRin February , fit in to a generator .
Windsurf has been gaining popularity with the developer community , too , and its inscribe product is design to work with legacy enterprise system . Windsurf did not respond to TechCrunch ’s petition for input . OpenAI declined to comment on its acquirement talk .
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OpenAI is potential shopping because it ’s looking for its next growth areas as contender such as Google ’s Gemini and China ’s DeepSeek put pricing insistency on access to foundational models .
Moreover , AnthropicandGoogle have recently bring out AI modelsthat outperform OpenAI ’s models on coding benchmark , more and more making them a preferred choice for developer .
While OpenAI could build its own AI inscribe help , purchase a ware that is already popular with developers think of the ChatGPT - maker would n’t have to start from scratch to work up this business .
VCs who invest in developer tool startup are for certain watching . mull about OpenAI ’s strategy , Chris Farmer , partner and chief operating officer at SignalFire , told TechCrunch of the company , “ They ’ll be acquisitive at the app layer . It ’s existential for them . ”
