The AI talent wars are intense! Here’s Windsurf’s second hire describing the way Google came in and reverse acquihired the core AI research team. He didn’t take the deal and is now at another AI ...

Varun Mohan, Windsurf co-founder, faced criticism for joining Google DeepMind. This happened after a $3 billion OpenAI ...

The company also launched a command-line tool based on Gemini Code, optimized for agentic coding and compatible with popular ...

Varun Mohans exit from Windsurf to Google DeepMind disrupts a potential sale and receives backlash from industry leaders and ...

Google poached Windsurf’s cofounders and some key AI researchers for $2.4 billion while AI coding startup Cognition scooped ...

Silicon Valley was left reeling after Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of promising AI startup Windsurf, abruptly left the ...

The founder and a few core staff get to build big things at Google, while the rest of the Windsurf is still protected as a ...

The departure came at a time when Windsurf was nearing a major deal. OpenAI had nearly acquired the startup for $3 billion, a ...

Windsurf’s Indian-origin CEO Varun Mohan is facing backlash for joining Google after a deal to sell the startup to OpenAI for ...

The whipsawing of Windsurf employees and the unusual cleaving of the company into separate parts have left a bitter taste in ...

There had been murmurs of disapproval when Windsurf's founders had jumped ship to Google leaving most of their employees to ...

After the collapse of OpenAI’s $3B deal with Windsurf, Google DeepMind seizes top talent and licenses key AI coding tools, ...