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		jeanlucas 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B oh wow, meaning I won't need to pay for Windsurf? What do you think will be the monetization path for this?

nialse 9 months ago | [–]

Probably the other way around. Windsurf and co (Aider, Cursor) drives a heap of traffic to their API from which OpenAI actually profit. They just need to have their own tool to lock customers in their ecosystem.

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