Windsurf CEO goes to Google; The collapse of Openai’s acquisition

Openai’s A deal to gain it AI VIRAL AI CODING WINDSURF Friday collapsedAccording to honor.

In a terrible development, Google DeepMind is now hiring the CEO of Windsurf Farun Mohan, co -founder Douglas Chen, and some talents of artificial intelligence coding in the startup. Google spokesman confirmed the employment of Windsurf leaders in a statement to Techcrunch.

“We are excited to welcome some AI’s best coding talents from Windsurf to Google DeepMind to enhance our job coding,” Google spokesman Chris Papas said in an email to Techcrunch.

It is worth noting that Google does not take a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control of the company. However, as part of the deal, Google will have an unprecedented license for some Windsurf technology, although the start of artificial intelligence coding is still free in its technology license to others.

The deal is the latest AI Ecosystem Acquihire, as the company gets the best talent and licenses in a startup and licenses, but it does not acquire the company directly. Google has already made a similar deal To use the character. CEO Nam ShazirAs Microsoft did to employ it Mustafa Suleiman. These deals have helped many large technology companies increase their position in the artificial intelligence race without organizational auditing.

“We are excited to join Google DeepMind with some Windsurf team,” Mohan and Chen said in a statement to Techcrunch. “We are proud of what Windsurf has created over the past four years and we are excited to see him go forward with their global team and start the next stage.”

As of Friday, the Windsurf business president, Jeff Wang, will take over the position of temporary CEO for the start of operation, in A. After social media. Most of the 250 Windsurf team will not go to Google DeepMind and will continue to provide AI coding tools to institutional customers.

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