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

The acquihire-on-steroids trend is unique to this tech boom, and could have big implications for current and future AI founders.

Google finalized a $2.4 billion deal with AI coding startup Windsurf, including hiring its CEO and key employees.

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

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to ...

We’re excited to welcome some top AI coding talent from Windsurf’s team to Google DeepMind to advance our work in agentic ...

Google isn’t buying Windsurf. Instead, it’s agreed to pay $2.4 billion for a nonexclusive licence to some of the company’s ...

Windsurf's $3B OpenAI deal ends as CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder, and team join Google DeepMind for AI coding tools.

Noam Shazeer, the co-author of a key research paper that sparked the AI boom, first joined Google in 2000 as one of the company’s first few hundred employees, but quit in 2021.

Alphabet Inc's Google rehires AI pioneer Noam Shazeer, who left in 2021 due to a dispute over a chatbot. Google reportedly paid $2.7B to license his tech and bring him back to lead AI efforts.

When Noam Shazeer is thinking, he puts his face in his hands, and goes somewhere else. Not literally, of course. He’s still across from me, in a Character.AI conference room that will later host ...