According to new reports, Openai’s $ 2 billion coract to buy a successful smart coding startup Windsurf Failed. In corast, Google hired a $ 1.5 billion coract, CEO, co -founder and a team of senior researchers at the startup.
According to Bloomberg, a deal that could be one of the biggest purchases in the history of artificial ielligence was disrupted in the final momes with a sudden rotation. Openai Company that is on the verge of finalizing the coract $ 2 billion It was a Windsurf startup for full, lost the competition to Google.
Google and Windsurf have officially announced that Varun Mohan, CEO, Douglas Chen, co -founder, and a team of the main researchers of the startup will join Google Dipmind.
Recruitme of the main forces Windsurf By Google
The importa poi of this agreeme is that Google has not purchased Windsurf completely. This is a new and clever strategy among the technology gias to which “Reverse Recruitme” (Reverse-ACQUIHIRE) It is said. According to this model, the main team and the Windsurf brain team are hired to work on the Ageic Coding projects in Dipmind.
Also Google by paying $ 1.5 billion It receives a non -licensed license to use some Windsurf technologies. Windsurf itself will coinue to operate as an independe eity and can sell its technology to other companies.
Although Windsurf remains as an independe company and “Jeff Wang“The ierim manager has become, but the future of this startup is vague. The company, which has become one of the most importa startups with its explosive growth (with annual revenue from $ 5 million to $ 5 million in several mohs), has now lost its original leaders.
Overall, similar experiences in the past, such as the Scale AI startups (after trading with Meta) and Inflection (after dealing with Microsoft), show that companies that leave their brain to technology gias will face major obstacles to maiain their growth and market position.
