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>>swyx+(OP)
$3B for a fork of an IDE which Microsoft keeps crippling by the day by making it's best extensions not work with forks (eg. C++, Python, C#, Remote SSH, etc)..

>>crimso+hV
That's a oversimplified view. It doesn't matter if it's a fork. It has customers and paying ones. And it has a brand. That's more than enough. $3 billion would be peanuts for OpenAI

>>sidcoo+XV
given that they lose >$4B/year I guess everything is peanuts

>>codyvo+cW
OpenAI have $40 billion in funding from SoftBank for the next two years, so they can afford to buy Windsurf.

Is OpenAI worth the $260 billion valuation... No, of course not, they're losing >$4 billion a year.

>>mrweas+RX
That $40 billion is actively being spent being lit on fire to serve all the ChatGPT requests though. It's not just sat in the bank doing nothing.