OpenAI\u2019s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf\u2019s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.<\/p>\n
Mohan and the Windsurf employees will focus on agentic coding efforts at Google DeepMind and work largely on Gemini. Google will not have any control over nor a stake in Windsurf, but it will take a non-exclusive license to some of Windsurf\u2019s technology.<\/p>\n
Effective immediately, Jeff Wang, Windsurf\u2019s head of business, has become interim CEO, and Graham Moreno, its VP of global sales, will be Windsurf\u2019s new president.<\/p>\n
\u201cGemini is one of the best models available and we\u2019ve been investing in its advanced capabilities for developers,\u201d Chris Pappas, a spokesperson for Google, told The Verge in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome some top AI coding talent from Windsurf\u2019s team to Google DeepMind to advance our work in agentic coding.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to be joining Google DeepMind along with some of the Windsurf team,\u201d Mohan and Chen said in a statement. \u201cWe are proud of what Windsurf has built over the last four years and are excited to see it move forward with their world class team and kick-start the next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Google didn\u2019t share how much it was paying to bring on the team. OpenAI was previously reported to be buying Windsurf for $3 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,2915,867,1318,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-257732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114837804991784908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}