
Google hires Windsurf execs in $2.4 billion deal to advance AI coding ambitions
By Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu and Kritika Lamba (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google has hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf, the companies announced on Friday, in a surprise move following an attempt by its rival OpenAI to acquire the startup. Google is paying $2.4 billion in license fees as part of the deal to use some of Windsurf’s technology under non-exclusive te ...