Openai’s $ 3 billion deal was separated to acquire AI coding startup windsurf – so Windsurf instead turned to Openai competitor Google.
Bloomberg Last week stated that after Windsurf’s deal with Openi, Google stepped and made a deal to pay about $ 2.4 billion for talent and licensing rights with AI coding startups.
Google is not investing in Windsurf, but is paying to hire a small group of other senior windsurf employees to work in the Startup CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chain and Google’s Deepmind AI team. Most of Windsurf’s 250 employees will be with startups and focus on creating innovation for their business customers.
Google said in a statement, “We are excited to welcome some top AI coding talent from Windsurf to Google Dipmind.” Roots,
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Google will also have a NOXCLUSIVE license to use Windsurf technology, which means that Windsurf can give its platform a license to other companies.
Google CEO beautiful Pichai. Photo through getty images by jakub porzycki/nurphoto
Windsurf deal with Google comes months after the AI coding startup. $ 3 billion acquisition, Bloomberg It was reported that the deal collapsed as Windsurf wanted to prevent Microsoft, the chief OpenaiI investor Microsoft from reaching his intellectual property.
Windsurf and Openai entered a specificity period to offer the acquisition, which ended on Friday, Openi reported BloombergWindsurf is now able to consider other dialects.
Windsurf, earlier known as codium, provides AI coding tools waterfallAn AI agent who codes, corrects and thinks several steps further. As Pitchbook dataThe startup was established in 2021 and is located in Mountain View, California. Pawanchakki Announced In April 2024, it had more than 500,000 active users and an enterprise clients paying more than 500.
Meanwhile, Openai was Established In 2015 and in November 2022 came out with Chatgpt. The startup shut down the $ 40 billion funding round in March at an evaluation of $ 300 billion, the largest tech funding round on records from a private company. Chatgpt now has 500 million global weekly users, Openai revealed in March.
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Google’s decision to rent the new AI talent comes as a meta, which dresses for former staff members for its superintending team. Former Google Deepmind researchers Jack Rai and Pei Sun joined the Meta last month to help the company work towards superintending, or AI that crosses human abilities.
Meta is not illegal only with Google. Openai CEO Sam Altman, 40, said last month said that the Meta OpenAI employees were later refused by the Meta officials in a statement in compensation every year with the “giant” $ 100 million signed bonus and “more than that”.
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Openai’s $ 3 billion deal was separated to acquire AI coding startup windsurf – so Windsurf instead turned to Openai competitor Google.
Bloomberg Last week stated that after Windsurf’s deal with Openi, Google stepped and made a deal to pay about $ 2.4 billion for talent and licensing rights with AI coding startups.
Google is not investing in Windsurf, but is paying to hire a small group of other senior windsurf employees to work in the Startup CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chain and Google’s Deepmind AI team. Most of Windsurf’s 250 employees will be with startups and focus on creating innovation for their business customers.
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