OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
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#3So Google, Meta, and Microsoft will just hollow out the best AI startups of their talent instead of buying them - out of fear of monopoly lawsuits I'm assuming?
Nice plan I guess. Kind of obvious to spot though.
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#4Windsurf and Cursor are in the business of reselling ChatGPT and Claude at a loss, but the tech itself is not impressive at all
Re: OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
#5Looks like Sama can’t catch a break.
Re: OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
#6It's unclear if OpenAI cancelled the deal, or Google poached them? Either way, this season of "OpenAI Drama" is wild. First Meta, now Google. Your turn Amazon / Microsoft.
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#7Windsurf and Cursor are in the business of reselling ChatGPT and Claude at a loss, but the tech itself is not impressive at all
Those wrappers are gonna go away now that there's Claude Code and Googles CLI thing. They are that much better.
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#8> OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder 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.
Sounds to me like they're "hiring" them like one "hires" a consultant?
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#9I did not see this coming. Wow. The game of thrones in SV.
I wonder what happened with the OpenAI deal. Anyone have any guesses? My first guess is "Look at Claude Code, we can do this ourselves." But, I am likely thinking too simply.
edit: does this mean that Windsurf and its users will stop being iced-out by Anthropic? Or, is this the end of Windsurf?
Re: OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
#10All of this game of thrones is going to create an amazing documentary if AI capabilities taper off and valuations vaporize.