OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.
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’s technology.
Effective immediately, Jeff Wang, Windsurf’s head of business, has become interim CEO, and Graham Moreno, its VP of Global Sales, will be Windsurf’s new …
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