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Assertion Supported
Gil: OpenAI Almost Acquired Windsurf
“OpenAI, you know, almost bought Windsurf.”
Elad Gil Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 18:55 No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
Insight
Krishnan: Undetectable Backdoors in Coding Assistants Threaten Critical Infrastructure
“Interpretability is still a nascent field and you could very easily see ways where You plug a model into a cursor or windsurf and you generate a piece of code. And then two years down the road, it turns out that code had a little if statement saying, if I'm ru…”
Sriram Krishnan Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 18:42 No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
Assertion Supported
Gil: OpenAI tried to acquire developer tool Windsurf
“Open AI tried to buy Windsurf.”
Elad Gil Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 12:33 No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
Insight
Laskin: Frontier labs cannot easily buy end-user distribution via acquisitions
“I don't think it's guaranteed that a big lab can, you know, buy their way to the end user because the fundamental problems of your, you know, research team being far away from your product team will still be true. And the company having, you know, a hundred di…”
Misha Laskin Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 46:17 No Priors Ep. 123 | With ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
Assertion Supported
Gil: OpenAI tried to acquire Windsurf to enter the AI coding market
“OpenAI famously tried to buy Windsurf and sort of enter coding more directly.”
Elad Gil Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 17:41 No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
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