According to reports, OpenAI is considering buying artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool Windsurf for about $3 billion.

The deal would be OpenAI's largest to date, the report said, adding that the terms have not yet been finalized and that the talks could change or fall apart.

Windsurf was in talks with investors such as Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst to rise funding at a $3 billion valuation, as per reports.

It closed a $150 million funding round led by General Catalyst last year, valuing it at $1.25 billion.
Investor enthusiasm for the AI sector has surged significantly in recent years, driven by the widespread adoption of chatbots and the emergence of sophisticated AI agents.

The ChatGPT maker said in March it would raise to $40 billion in a new funding round, valuing it at $300 billion.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI acquired search and database analytics startup Rockset in a nine-figure stock deal last year, to provide better infrastructure for its enterprise products.

In September, OpenAI introduced artificial intelligence technology that could reason through tasks involving math, coding and science.

Now, this technology can tackle similar tasks that involve images, including sketches, posters, diagrams and graphs.

“These systems can manipulate, crop and transform images in service of the task you want to do," says Mark Chen, head of research at OpenAI.

OpenAI also said these systems could generate images, search the web and use other digital tools.

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Unlike early versions of its ChatGPT chatbot, these reasoning systems spend a significant amount of time thinking about a question before answering, rather than providing an instant response.