Google snags Windsurf’s leadership and licenses its tech for $2.4B, while OpenAI loses a major acquisition opportunity.

Alphabet has acquired talent and licensing rights from AI startup Windsurf, hiring its top executives for DeepMind. Windsurf ...

After failed talks with OpenAI, AI coding startup Windsurf’s top talent, including Indian-origin CEO Varun Mohan, joins Google DeepMind to boost Gemini’s agentic coding and tool use capabilities ...

Google, while not investing in Windsurf, will take a nonexclusive license to certain technologies of the AI coding startup.

Alphabet Inc. has finalised a $2.4 billion deal to recruit executives from AI startup Windsurf after negotiations with OpenAI ...

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan & co-founder Douglas Chen to lead its Gemini AI project, signalling a major move in the ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google struck a deal to pay about $2.4 billion for top talent and licensing rights from artificial ...

Alphabet’s Google has signed a big deal with AI startup Windsurf, hiring key team members and paying $2.4 billion (₹20,400 crore) to license its technology. The move comes soon after OpenAI tried to ...

Google's $2.4B Windsurf deal followed the collapse of OpenAI's acquisition, which was reportedly blocked by a Microsoft IP rights objection.

Google is set to hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some top researchers at the artificial ...