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A surprising twist has disrupted what seemed like a done deal between OpenAI and Windsurf. Initially valued at $3 billion, ...
With a $2.4 billion agreement to license technology and hire top talent from AI coding startup Windsurf, Google has stepped ...
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Google Goes Windsurfing in the AI War for Talent
In a very agile, clever, and surprising move, Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) swept into the debris of OpenAI's bid for the AI coding startup Windsurf and came out with the latest and ...
The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new ...
OpenAI’s $3B bid to acquire Windsurf collapsed after talks stalled, clearing the path for Google to license its AI coding ...
For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software ...
In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf ...
Google hired Windsurf’s core team and licensed its AI tech for $2.4B to support agentic coding in DeepMind’s Gemini project.
In a stunning reversal, Google DeepMind acquires Windsurf’s top talent just weeks after OpenAI’s $3B deal collapsed over IP ...
Last Thursday, more than 40 researchers and engineers at Windsurf, a startup that has developed an artificial intelligence–powered coding tool, began gathering at a hotel in Mountain View, Calif., ...
Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a ...
In one of the largest acqui-hires to date, Meta last month recruited Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, along with members of ...