Anysphere, the creator of that assistant cursor assistant, is growing so fast that it is not on the market to sell, even for Opennai, a source close to the company tells Techcrunch.
Has been a hot target. The cursor is one of the most popular tools of AI coding, and its income has increased astronomically-doubled on average every two months, according to another source. The average annual annual annual revenue of Anysphere is about $ 300 million, according to two sources.
The company previously left the early acquisition discussions with Openai, as the chatgt manufacturer approached Cursor, confirmed the two sources near the company, and the CNBC reported earlier. Anysphere has also received other purchase offers that the company did not consider, according to one of these resources.
The cursor dismissed the offers because the beginning wants to stay independent, both people near the company said. Instead, Anysphere has been in talks to raise capital at about $ 10 billion, Bloomberg reported last month.
Although he did nothing wrong, Openai did not give up on buying a created start of his coding tool. Openai spoke with more than 20 others, CNBC reported.
And then it became serious about the start of the fastest growing AI, Windsurf, with a $ 3 billion buying offer, Bloomberg reported last week. While Windsurf is a relatively smaller company, its reach is about $ 100 million, from $ 40 million in ARR in February, according to a source.
Windsurf has also gained popularity with the developers’ community, and its coding product is created to work with inheritance enterprise systems. Windsurf did not respond to Techcrunch’s request for comment. Openai refused to comment on his purchase talks.
Openai is likely to shop because it is looking for its upcoming growth areas as competitors such as Google and China’s Deepseek twins set the price of access to the basic models.
Moreover, Anthropic and Google have recently released models that transcend Openai models in coding standards, making them more and more a favorite choice for developers.
While Openai can build his own coding assistant, buying a product that is already popular with developers means that the Chatgpt maker will not have to start from scratch to build this business.
VCs that invest in the beginnings of the developer tools are certainly watching. Speculating on OpenAi’s strategy, Chris Farmer, partner and CEO in Signalfire, told Techcrunch for the company, “they will be buyers in the app layer. Existential is existential for them.”
