Google's strategic acquisition of Windsurf leaders strengthens its AI coding efforts amidst intense competition for top ...

Cognition is acquiring Windsurf days after Google DeepMind hired its CEO and research leaders, and months after OpenAI ...

Key Windsurf figures, including CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen, will join Google DeepMind to focus on agentic ...

In a stunning reversal, Google DeepMind acquires Windsurf’s top talent just weeks after OpenAI’s $3B deal collapsed over IP ...

Cognition Labs is an applied AI lab founded in November 2023 by Olympiad gold‑medalist programmers Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and ...

Google has hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and key team members, following a $2.4B tech licensing ...

Google scores a major win in the AI talent war by snapping up key minds behind one of coding AI’s most promising startups.

Coding assistant company Cognition has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining staff and assets of Windsurf, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. All ...

Alphabet's Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is spending about $2.4 billion to secure AI coding talent and licensing rights from startup ...

Google has agreed to pay about $2.4 billion in a deal to license the technology of AI-assisted coding tool Windsurf, The Wall ...

This is the latest in the ongoing mass talent hunt for AI in Big Tech. Last week, Meta managed to hire Apple’s AI lead ...

The already fierce rivalry between AI titans is heightened by this development. Microsoft is developing its own AI-driven coding tools through "agent mode" in Visual Studio Code, and Meta recently ...