[MJGrzymek]

I don't get it, surely they can build it for less than $3B, and why would they need the Windsurf brand?

[lanthissa]

With stuff like this, they like the team that built it and want them on their side.

If you believe the founders/team is the right group to deliver a core product 3b is nothing to get them onside.

[xenospn]

There is literally never a context in which 3b is “nothing”. Not even for a company that just raised 40b.

[CharlesW]

The "Windsurf" brand has little value in comparison to OpenAI's, but $3B lets them hit the ground running with a proven developer product (better than Cursor IMHO), the team who created it, and a customer base.

[jemmyw]

Maybe ChatGPT told them it was a good idea? Considering the proliferation of these tools there's no way it's worth $3B. This functionality is going to be built into every IDE eventually: vscode just got an agent mode, it might not be great yet but it's only a matter of time until Windsurf is essentially just management tools because there won't be much editor value add available.

[OutOfHere]

Precisely. For most users, there is hardly value in moving off of VSCode. Granted, if Windsurf can make itself into a VSCode extension, there may be some competitive value to it.

[383toast]

It's obvious they can't build it for $3b, otherwise they would've created a competitor already.