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Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz / @gergely.pragmati...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta
The cutthroat recruitment efforts to land the smartest minds in Silicon Valley have hit a feverish new peak in recent days X: @berber_jin1 X: Berber Jin / @berber_jin1 : We have the definitive story o...
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports …
Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation
Big Tech's growing reliance on licensing deals to scoop up top talent from AI startups risks leaving many rank-and-file workers in limbo.
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsoft over IP. — Then ...
The exclusivity period for OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf, entered into in May, has expired
Google just Poached the CEO Instead Bloomberg Law : OpenAI's $3 Billion Deal to Buy AI Startup Windsurf Falls Apart Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : This leaves Anthropic looking like a remarka...
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind
Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. … OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off …
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models largely because of reports that OpenAI was acquiring Windsurf
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch :
Windsurf says Anthropic gave five days of notice before cutting nearly all its first-party capacity to all Claude 3.x models, after passing it over for Claude 4
Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that's reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced …