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OpenAI Eyes $3B Acquisition of Windsurf (Codeium)
OpenAI Drops o3 and o4-mini Models with Impressive Tool Usage
Codex CLI: OpenAI's Open-Source Coding Agent
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Alright, let’s dive in!
Three major headlines
Three main stories for the day.
It’s all OpenAI day today.
1/ OpenAI Eyes $3B Acquisition of Windsurf (Codeium)
According to Bloomberg, OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf (Codeium) for a cool $3 billion.
This potential deal would put OpenAI in an awkward position - like dating your best friend's ex, since they're already backing Cursor through their Startup Fund. Oops!
There are breadcrumbs everywhere suggesting something's cooking: Windsurf users recently got emails about locking in $10/month access "because of an announcement later this week,".
Besides, OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil has been practically writing love letters to Windsurf publicly.
With Windsurf's $40 million ARR being dwarfed by Cursor's reported $200 million, OpenAI seems to be paying a premium for the company.
2/ OpenAI Drops o3 and o4-mini Models with Impressive Tool Usage
OpenAI just launched their o3 and o4-mini models, showing off significant improvements in both multimodal capabilities and agentic tool use.
The big deal? These models can integrate images directly into their reasoning process and autonomously chain together web/code/data/image tools.
The benchmark results are impressive - o3 is setting state-of-the-art records in coding, math, science, and visual perception.
On the math side, o4-mini is slightly edging out Gemini 2.5 Pro with a 93.4% score on AIME 2024 compared to Gemini's 92%.
The real innovation here seems to be large-scale reinforcement learning that's boosting analytical thinking and execution capabilities.
But before you get too excited, pricing might make you think twice - o3 is reportedly 4-5x more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro. Ouch, my wallet hurts just thinking about it.
3/ Codex CLI: OpenAI's Open Source Coding Agent
In a "one more thing" moment, OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that one-ups Claude Code.
This lightweight terminal integration leverages models like o3 and o4-mini (with GPT-4 support coming soon) to convert natural language into working code right in your terminal.
The developer community is already impressed, with reports of Codex coding Conway's Game of Life in 4 minutes and compiling/running it on the first try.
Some users say it catches about 80% of bugs before they run anything. Not bad for a robot assistant!
What's particularly interesting is that OpenAI chose to make this fully open source, perhaps signaling a shift in their typically closed approach.
Maybe they saw Claude Code and thought, "Hold my beer"?
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