Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co&founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Hayden Field / The Verge: Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind  —  Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. … OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off …

Jul 12, 2025 - 06:04
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co&founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Hayden Field / The Verge: Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind  —  Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. … OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off …