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According to reports, before negotiating with competitor WindSurf, OpenAI had acquisition talks with Anysphere, the company that produces the Cursor AI programming assistant.
According to CNBC, OpenAI reached out to Anysphere twice in 2024 and 2025, but the negotiations did not progress. The failure to reach a deal prompted OpenAI to seek other potential acquisition targets.
Insiders also revealed that OpenAI is prepared to pay $3 billion to acquire WindSurf, which would become the company's largest corporate acquisition to date.
OpenAI's attempt to acquire an AI programming assistant company follows the release of DeepSeek R1 in January 2025, a product that challenges long-held assumptions about artificial intelligence.
Reports indicate that the training costs for DeepSeek are only a small fraction of leading AI models, yet its performance is comparable, challenging the notion that "scaling requires massive computational power," shaking financial markets and raising questions about the rationale behind U.S. AI giants spending billions of dollars.
OpenAI is gradually approaching profitability, but cheaper competitors still pose challenges.
OpenAI expects to triple its revenue by 2025 through paid subscription services for its leading AI models to individuals and businesses, reaching approximately $12.7 billion.
The company surpassed 1 million enterprise paid subscribers in September 2024. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the AI giant may not achieve profitability until 2029.
Altman mentioned that OpenAI needs about $125 billion in revenue to become profitable in its capital-intensive business.
In February 2025, Altman stated that AI development costs are plummeting. "Every 12 months, the cost of using a certain level of AI decreases by about tenfold," the CEO wrote in a blog post on February 9.
Nevertheless, high costs and centralization issues continue to plague large-scale enterprise AI developers, who must compete with more agile open-source competitors.
Dr. Ala Shaabana, co-founder of the OpenTensor Foundation, recently told Cointelegraph that the release of DeepSeek solidifies open-source AI as a strong competitor against centralized AI systems.
Shaabana added that the lower costs of open-source systems demonstrate that AI does not require billions of dollars to scale or achieve high-performance standards.
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