OpenAI edges toward finalizing its record-breaking $3 billion purchase of Windsurf, the coding tool previously branded as Codeium. Banking details reveal negotiations intensified throughout March, with key documents now circulating among board members and investors.

The sheer financial commitment eclipses anything in OpenAI's corporate history—nearly quadrupling their next-largest transaction. This aggressive checkbook diplomacy reveals their hunger to capture crucial territory where programmers actually spend their working hours.