OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some ...

As of Friday, Windsurf’s head of business, Jeff Wang, will take over as the startup’s interim CEO, he announced in a post on ...

Days after AI coding startup Windsurf announced that it’s being acquired by Cognition, Windsurf exec Jeff Wang took to X to ...

The founders of Windsurf, an AI startup, left the company for Google Deepmind just after a deal to sell it to OpenAI fell ...

In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf ...

Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some members of the coding tool's research and development team will join Google's DeepMind AI division.

Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several top engineers are heading to Google DeepMind; their mission: help power Gemini, Google's bold new agentic coding initiative.

Google has hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and key team members, following a $2.4B tech licensing deal. The move boosts Google's AI coding push as Meta and OpenAI race for top ...

The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new battleground.

Mohan and his cofounder and MIT classmate Douglas Chen had built software to manage 10,000 GPUs for companies, making them more efficient for running applications.