alt Hacker News> 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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frosting1337 • 06/17/2025
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.
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ivape • 06/16/2025
One way or another an AI company needs to offer coding tools, so something like this was going to happen no matter what.
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).