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• @seldo.com Laurie Voss on bluesky

  Boy does this blow for the folks at Windsurf who were about to be acquired for cash and now get nada. www.theverge.com/openai/70599...

• @davidgerard.co.uk @davidgerard.co.uk on bluesky

  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahha OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off and Google hired on the CEO and researchers, leaving a shell behind  —  www.theverge.com/openai/70599...

• @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky

  - Any funding or $ problems at Glean, Harvey, AlphaSense, Perplexity, Anysphere (Cursor), Replit, Windsurf, or any significant downtime or rate limits.  — Any openAI Non-profit issues  —  Basically - everyone is either running out of compute capacity or cash, sometimes they're do…

• @jeffwsurf Jeff Wang on x

  Today we're thrilled to announce that @windsurf_ai and Google have entered into an agreement to kick start the next phase of the company. As part of the agreement, Varun, Douglas, and some members of our research team will join Google to continue pushing the frontier of AI

• @jeffwsurf Jeff Wang on x

  ...We're excited to announce that Windsurf and Google have entered into an agreement that will help kick-start this next phase.  As part of the agreement, Varun, Douglas, and some members of our R&D team will join Google.  Most of Windsurf's world-class team will continue to buil…

• @officiallogank Logan Kilpatrick on x

  Big welcome to @_mohansolo and others from the Windsurf team joining Deepmind : )

• @demishassabis Demis Hassabis on x

  Thrilled to welcome @windsurf_ai founders @_mohansolo & Douglas Chen and some of the brilliant Windsurf eng team to @GoogleDeepMind. Excited to be working with them to turbocharge our Gemini efforts on coding agents, tool use and much more. Great to have you on board!

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  MSFT agreement with OpenAI means OAI must share all IP, which complicated the Windsurf deal, per this piece one thing i'm told, which is not yet public: MSFT can create carveouts which allow OAI to not share IP on some deals — the IO deal with Jony Ive has one of those carveouts …

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Source: https://www.theverge.com/... Feels like this is the end of Windsurf. Hopefully the team got a great exit from Google. This looks really bad on OpenAI btw. And will make future acquisitions very very difficult for them...

• @thdxr Dax on x

  this windsurf shit is such a bitch move as a leader you get a lot of upside but the deal is you go down with the ship

• @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x

  Google is paying $2.4B to “license” Windsurf Employees and investors will be paid and the CEO and some top employees will go to Google [image]

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  Remaining Windsurf employees watching the CEO and “key researchers” get multimillion dollar signing bonuses at Google [image]

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  everyone of these companies was hyped and well funded and then the founders bailed. surely a sign of ... something

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  “OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf's CEO is going to Google” - The Verge just broke the news A reminder that until a deal is done: it's not done. Anyone treating claims of OpenAI buying Windsurf as a fact - well, it was not... [image]

• @hipcityreg Reggie James on x

  ...I'd assume the value is wiped out?  Or maybe the board is scrambling for a new CEO?  I'm like p > .99 that this behavior is a blip in the radar.  But I'm afraid investors are going to use it as an excuse to have significantly stricter rules for founders and core team members. …

• @koraykv Koray Kavukcuoglu on x

  Very excited to share that @windsurf_ai co-founders @_mohansolo & Douglas Chen, and some of their talented team have joined @GoogleDeepMind to help advance our work in agentic coding in Gemini. Welcome to our new team mates from Windsurf! https://www.theverge.com/...

• @varunramg Varunram Ganesh on x

  > be windsurf employee > openai acquisition at $3B, you start looking at houses, cars, with vested equity > its been 2 months, you're starting to think alright maybe $3B is a little too crazy maybe just the house > one fine afternoon, you see ceo and c suite left slack > see

• @devahaz Deva Hazarika on x

  Welcome Windsurf to this list of totally serious independent companies [image]

• @kyleasay_ Kyle Asay on x

  Meta can't acquire OpenAI but they can pay massive amounts to acquire OpenAI talent Google could likely acquire Windsurf but hiring execs is definitely cheaper for Google and maybe a bigger payout for execs than a company acquisition would be Crazy times Also I am now

• @morqon Morgan on x

  openai isn't buying windsurf the CEO, co-founder, and a few researchers will go to deepmind sounds like google didn't see much value in windsurf itself, isn't investing, licensing some tech non-exclusively but that's all did microsoft kill the deal? [image]

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  BIG news! The $3B OpenAI Windsurf acquisition fell through and the team might be going to Google DeepMind instead to work on “agentic” coding. Will Google try to compete with Cursor now? [image]

• @prashant_1722 Prashant on x

  BREAKING 🚨 OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off and its CEO Varun Mohan is going to Google along with key researchers to build Gemini agentic coding at DeepMind Google will not have any control over nor a stake in Windsurf, but it will take a non-exclusive license to some of [image]

• @haydenfield Hayden Field on x

  Scoop: OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off. The startup's CEO, co-founder & some R&D team members are all going to Google DeepMind to support its AI efforts and work on Gemini. https://www.theverge.com/...

• r/cursor r on reddit

  OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf's CEO is going to Google

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  OpenAI's reported $3 billion Windsurf deal is off; Windsurf's CEO and some R&D employees will be joining Google

• r/singularity r on reddit

  OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and its CEO is going to Google

• @mualphaxi Maxwell Meyer on x

  Increasingly weird/bad things are happening because the FTC (under Biden and Trump, alas) refuses to let “big tech” buy startups. We don't know the details yet, but it looks like Windsurf investors&employees got screwed. The bureaucrats think they know better (they do not) [image…

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  @varunramg wait, windsurf employees got 0 from the acquisition?

• @__venki__ Venki on x

  @varunramg i do see: “However, as part of the deal, Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology” wonder how much they pay for that, if it's eg: $1b and if employees see any of that.

• @creatine_cycle Atlas on x

  really sad to think that windsurf founding engineers were probably looking at houses, going on benders and preparing for life in the aristocracy having escaped the permanent underclass before today

• @kevinakwok Kevin Kwok on x

  everyone is misreading this. And windsurf is clearly similar structure to inflection / character / etc. with employees and investors having dividended out payout

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  OpenAI wanted to keep Microsoft from being able to access Windsurf's IP Microsoft balked Now Google is getting the core team Sundar moving in silence like lasagna

• @theo @theo on x

  This genuinely kinda sucks for anyone at Windsurf that didn't move over Instead of a crazy stock buyout, their shares are going to the floor. Sad to see tbh

• @quinnypig.com Corey Quinn on bluesky

  This leaves Anthropic looking like a remarkably unreliable vendor / partner.  [embedded post]