The acquihire-on-steroids trend is unique to this tech boom, and could have big implications for current and future AI founders.

In the escalating war for AI talent, Google is pulling out all the stops, offering substantial salaries to lure top-tier ...

Google has strengthened its AI team by hiring Windsurf co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen. They secured a $2.4 billion ...

Varun Mohan, a math prodigy turned MIT engineer, co-founded Windsurf, an AI startup revolutionizing software development.

Varun Mohan, MIT-educated co-founder of AI startup Windsurf, was hired by Google in a move that came after OpenAI’s reported ...

Mohan and the Windsurf team will focus on agentic coding initiatives at Google DeepMind, primarily working on the Gemini ...

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to ...

Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.