Google beats OpenAI to hire Indian-origin techie Varun, buy his startup Windsurf for $2.4 bn
Google announced it'll be onboarding Indian-origin techie Varun Mohan in a deal to buy his startup Windsurf for $2.4 billion, months after OpenAI tried the same thing. The deal will see Windsurf Co-founder Douglas Chen and some R&D employees also joining Google DeepMind. Google will get a non-exclusive license to Windsurf technologies but won't own a stake in the startup.