Although OpenAI had reportedly been in exclusive acquisition talks with Windsurf earlier this year for about dollar 3 billion ...

The acquihire-on-steroids trend is unique to this tech boom, and could have big implications for current and future AI founders.

Besides CEO Varun Mohan, several key R&D staff of Windsurf, including co-founder Douglas Chen, have joined Google.

Sources told Bloomberg that Google agreed to pay about $2.4 billion to hire Windsurf founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, ...

Meta acquires voice AI startup PlayAI for a reported $45M, escalating its 'buy or poach' strategy to enhance its AI assistant ...

Mohan and the Windsurf team will focus on agentic coding initiatives at Google DeepMind, primarily working on the Gemini ...

Google has hired key personnel from AI code-generation startup Windsurf, following failed acquisition talks between Windsurf ...

As of Friday, Windsurf’s head of business, Jeff Wang, will take over as the startup’s interim CEO, he announced in a post on ...

OpenAI’s discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as ...

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to ...

Google has struck a licensing deal with coding startup Windsurf, upending OpenAI’s $3 billion offer to acquire the startup ...

Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.