You can find the story on the Windsurf acquisition here. In this piece I reflect on the strategy behind the Windsurf acquisition, including implications for Cursor, Anthropic, and other players like Google.
When OpenAI shelled out a reported $3 billion for Windsurf, it wasn’t just buying market share—it was buying the control layer for the next phase of …
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