Before entering into talks to acquire artificial intelligence code-writing startup Windsurf, OpenAI looked at buying another option: Cursor. The ChatGPT creator last year reached out to Anysphere, the startup that sells the Cursor application, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC. OpenAI reached out again this year as Cursor was enjoying a new wave of popularity. The talks again failed to gain traction, one of the people said.

OpenAI declined to comment. Anysphere did not respond to a request for comment. Bloomberg reported last month that Anysphere was in talks to raise funding at a valuation of close to $10 billion. OpenAI has recently engaged in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding tool Windsurf, CNBC reported Wednesday, following a story published by Bloomberg. Should a Windsurf deal take place, it would be by far OpenAI's most expensive acquisition to date.

Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, said on social media site X that his company's new o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, released on Wednesday, are super good at coding, so we are releasing a new product, Codex CLI, to make them easier to use. Anysphere said on X that the two new large language models, or LLMs, are available now in Cursor.

Cursor's desktop application gained popularity last year for providing coding assistance by drawing from Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model. In October, Microsoft added support for Anthropic's Sonnet model in its GitHub Copilot assistant, and weeks later, some programmers reported that Cursor was preferable to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

More on OpenAI’s acquisition process of Windsurf on CNBC

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