Posted by Alumni from Crunchbase
May 1, 2025
Last week, it was reported OpenAI is in talks to acquire artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool Windsurf ' previously called Codeium ' for a cool $3 billion. The deal would not be the generative AI giant's first purchase ' it has made a trio of acquisitions, per Crunchbase ' but it would be by far its biggest. In fact, OpenAI was not the only generative AI giant to open up the checkbook last week. Anthropic took part in Goodfire's $50 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures. San Francisco-based Goodfire helps enterprises understand and design AI models. That investment was the first one Anthropic has made into a startup ' aside from participating in Menlo's Anthology Fund. However, it wouldn't shock anyone if it was not the last deal ' investment or even an outright acquisition ' considering it has raised $4.5 billion already this calendar year. And lest we forget, it was just late March when Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, bought X, the social media platform... learn more
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