Opeli was reportedly in conversations about the purchase of Kanuphere, a company that produces a cursor coding assistant before he talked to the competing Windsurf company.
According to CNBCOpeli approached Anysphere in 2024 and again in 2025, but the conversations stuck in a deadline every time. Failure to endeavor the contract led OpenAI to search for potential acquisitions elsewhere.
Sources acquainted with the contract also say that Opeli are ready to pay $ 3 billion to buy Windsurf, which would make the greatest acquisition of the company so far.
The attempt to take over by AII Assistant Company takes place after the release of Deepseek R1 in January 2025, which destroyed long assumptions about artificial intelligence.
Deepseek was reportedly trained for a fraction of the cost of leading AI models, while providing comparable results – questioning the belief that scaling requires a huge computing force, rattling financial markets and asking questions about billions issued by American AI giants.
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Openai in the direction of profitability, but the cheaper competitors are still a challenge
Opeli expects to get its revenues in 2025 to around $ 12.7 billion, selling paid subscriptions for leading AI models for natural persons and companies.
The company exceeded 1 million premium business subscribers in September 2024. However, the general director of Opeli, Altman himself, said that Gigant AI may not be profitable only in 2029.
According to Altman, Opennai needs revenues of around $ 125 billion to achieve profit from capital business.
In February 2025, Altman said that the costs of developing artificial intelligence fell dramatically. “The cost of using a given AI level drops about 10 times every 12 months”, CEO wrote In the post on the blog on February 9.
Despite this, high costs and centralization are still harassed by vast corporate AI programmers who have to compete with more agile open source counterparts.
Dr. Ala Shaabana-SPOCIER OPENDENSOR Foundation-Nedawno told Cointelegraph that the release of Deepseek has solidified the artificial intelligence of Open Source as a solemn pretender against centralized AI systems.
Shaabana added that the lower cost of open source systems proves that AI does not need billion dollars to scale or achieve high indicators.
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