[heymijo]

Ah, this sheds light on the silence around the Windsurf acquisition:

OpenAI and Microsoft are at a standoff over the terms of the startup’s $3 billion acquisition of the coding startup Windsurf, the people said. Microsoft currently has access to all of OpenAI’s IP, according to their agreement. It offers its own AI coding product, GitHub Copilot, that competes with OpenAI. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property.

[aleph_minus_one]

> Microsoft currently has access to all of OpenAI’s IP, according to their agreement. [...] OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property.

Why does OpenAI then buy Windsurf if such an agreement is in place?

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I can't tell if that line came from the unnamed sources or is just the journalist's understanding, but it seems pretty clear to me that OpenAI did not spend $3B for the source code of an IDE. They wanted the employees and customers to kickstart a shift to an enterprise product focus, which doesn't sit well with MSFT (who entered into a partnership with what they believed was a research lab that would supply things they could upsell in github and office365).

[frosting1337]

One theory is it's Sam Altman's way of wresting control away from the non-profit through diluting the shares.

It's not like he hasn't done such things before.

[ivape]

One way or another an AI company needs to offer coding tools, so something like this was going to happen no matter what.

[__loam]

The business leadership at OpenAI seems fantastically naive