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Industry insiders joke about acquisitions—someone humorously claimed to have bought Windsurf, illustrating how firms are vying to dominate this space. Multiple tech giants, including Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, are in a massive race to own the ecosystem and data necessary for AI-powered software development. These pursuits are driven by the understanding that controlling the entire pipeline—raw data, AI models, and developer tools—equates to long-term dominance.