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Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin into Windsurf ...
Google hires Windsurf execs in $2.4 billion deal to advance AI coding ambitions
Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some members of the coding tool's research and development team will ...
Cognition finalizes acquisition of Windsurf
Cognition said the deal structure eliminates existing vesting cliffs and provides accelerated vesting for current staff ...
Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart
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 ...
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Google secures Windsurf talent in $2.4bn AI technology deal
Key Windsurf figures, including CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen, will join Google DeepMind to focus on agentic ...
Google deal with Windsurf applies pressure to GitLab, JFrog: BofA
B deal with the artificial intelligence code generation tool company Windsurf for its licensing rights and talent will likely ...
Google Hires A.I. Leaders From a Start-Up Courted by OpenAI
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 Poaches Windsurf’s Founder as Top AI Talent Chooses a Big Paycheck Over Building Their Own Company
The acquihire-on-steroids trend is unique to this tech boom, and could have big implications for current and future AI founders.