OpenAI deal for Windsurf falls apart
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Cognition is acquiring Windsurf days after Google DeepMind hired its CEO and research leaders, and months after OpenAI offered to buy it.
OpenAI faces an existential crisis as strategic blunders, a talent exodus to rivals like Meta, and the collapsed $3B Windsurf deal reveal deep internal turmoil.
Cognition acquires AI coding startup Windsurf, gaining its IP, talent, and user base, strengthening its position to compete with OpenAI, Cursor, and Anthropic.
Questions swirled about Windsurf's future after Google's surprise deal. Now, Windsurf will have a new owner.
Google hired Windsurf’s core team and licensed its AI tech for $2.4B to support agentic coding in DeepMind’s Gemini project.
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How OpenAI's $3B Windsurf deal was sabotaged by Anthropic and vetoed by Microsoft, leading to a Google poach and a final Cognition rescue.