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The Prompt: Windsurf Acquisition Is The Latest Salvo In The Battle For AI Talent
In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf ...
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Google Goes Windsurfing in the AI War for Talent
The "acqui-hire" strategy is on fire in this battle among tech titans seeking AI dominance and a Goliath just beat David ...
Google snatches Windsurf execs in a $2.4B deal, derailing OpenAI’s biggest acquisition yet
In a stunning reversal, Google DeepMind acquires Windsurf’s top talent just weeks after OpenAI’s $3B deal collapsed over IP ...
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Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf
The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new ...
Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin ...
The Windsurf Story So Far, Windsurf’s Wild Ride : OpenAI, Google and Acquisition By Cognition
Explore Cognition AI’s acquisition of Windsurf and its impact on AI, software development, and employee ownership in the tech ...
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Google to pay $2.4 billion for AI executives from Windsurf
With a $2.4 billion agreement to license technology and hire top talent from AI coding startup Windsurf, Google has stepped ...
Sundar Pichai-Led Google Pips OpenAI To Hire AI Startup Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan And Staff For $2.4 Billion
Sharing the same, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis welcomed the duo and the rest of ...