OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

Codeium, a producer of the popular ASistant tool Windsurf, talks about Openi for about $ 3 billion, Bloomberg reported.

If the agreement happens, he would set up an Openi in direct competition with many other coding providers, including Anysphere, a Cursor manufacturer, who supported the Openi from his Openi starting fund.

The acquisition could endanger the credibility of the Openi Launal Fund, given that one of the largest investors of the cursor is, she said the person is familiar with the cursion captainable. It is not clear whether Openi approached the Cursor on acquisition.

In addition to what the sources said to Bloomberg, there are several more traces that something happens between the two companies. A few days ago, the Windsurf users received an E -Stand, which said that due to the announcement later this week they have the ability to lock the approach to the coding editor in the amount of $ 10 a month.

And the CEO of Openii Kevin Weil’s product also published a Video yesterday praising Windsurf’s capabilities.

Codeium talked about collecting fresh funds on a $ 2.85 billion On the forefront of Kleiner Perkins, Techcrunch reported in February. The company reached around $ 40 million annual repetitive revenue (ARR), according to our reporting. This revenue ratio is much lower than the cursor, which is allegedly earning $ 200 million on the ARR basis. The cursor talked about collecting capital around Evaluation of $ 10 billionBloomberg reported last month.

Since his founding in 2021, Varun Mohan and his childhood friend and colleague MIT, Douglas Chen, Codeium has previously raised $ 243 million from investors, including Greenoaks Capital and General Catalyst, according to Pitchbook.

Additional reporting Sarah Perez