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What Happened With WindSurf

By Brian Wang

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Jul 15, 2025
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Windsurf is an AI-powered developer tool that enables users to build full-stack applications using natural language prompts. They compete with Cursor and recently had a bunch of buyout offer drama.

Windsurf raised a Series C in Sept 2024 at $1.25 billion value and around April 2025 they were in talks for a 2.85 funding round. OpenAI made a formal $3 bil…

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