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Google's strategic acquisition of Windsurf leaders strengthens its AI coding efforts amidst intense competition for top ...
Google has hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and several top R&D staff in a $2.4 billion licensing and compensation deal, ...
Cognition is acquiring Windsurf days after Google DeepMind hired its CEO and research leaders, and months after OpenAI ...
In a stunning reversal, Google DeepMind acquires Windsurf’s top talent just weeks after OpenAI’s $3B deal collapsed over IP ...
Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several top engineers are heading to Google DeepMind; their mission: ...
Key Windsurf figures, including CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen, will join Google DeepMind to focus on agentic ...
Just days after Google hired acquired some of its top talent, AI coding editor maker Windsurf was acquired by Cognition.
Among those joining Google’s DeepMind division are Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen. The pair, along with other members of their team, will focus on building agentic coding tools. ...
Google scores a major win in the AI talent war by snapping up key minds behind one of coding AI’s most promising startups.
It's been a wild ride for vibe-coding platform Windsurf. Google poached its founder and top talent, and now it's being bought by Cognition.
Cognition Labs is an applied AI lab founded in November 2023 by Olympiad gold‑medalist programmers Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and ...
AI startup Cognition on Monday said it’s acquiring Windsurf in a deal that will include the coding company’s IP and user base ...