Why OpenAI Spent $3B on a VS Code Fork

Why OpenAI Spent $3B on a VS Code Fork

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Why OpenAI Spent $3B on a VS Code Fork
Microsoft built VS Code, and made it open source. A company called Windsurf forked it, and added some AI features. In the meantime Microsoft bought 49% of OpenAI, who then decided to pay $3B for Windsurf, meaning that Microsoft basically paid $3B dollars for a fork of their own piece of software. What is going on? Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:49 Why is VS Code Open Source? 4:45 Why pay for a fork of your own product? Please consider to like, comment and subscribe. That is the only way to help me out!