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AI Entrepreneurship Cognition Announce It is acquiring Windsurf, and the AI coding company loses its CEO and several other senior employees Google A few days ago.
Cognition said on Monday that it will purchase Windsurf’s intellectual property, products, trademarks, brands and talents, but did not disclose the terms of the deal. This is the latest development in the AI talent war, because YuanGoogle and Openai fierce Fight for top engineers and researchers.
Openai has been negotiating to get around $3 billion In April, but the deal crashed, Google said Friday that it hired Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf. Google will pay $2.4 billion in licensing fees and compensation as CNBC Previous reports.
“Every new employee of Cognitive will be treated the same way as existing employees: transparency, equity and respect for their abilities and values,” Cognitive CEO Scott Wu wrote in a memo to employees on Monday. “Our efforts after today will be a united team. There is only one boat, we are together.”
Fengmai and Cognitive did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
Cognition is known for its AI-encoding agent called Devin, which is designed to help engineers build software faster. As of March, the startup has raised hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of nearly $4 billion. Bloomberg.
Both companies are backed by Peter Thiel’s founder’s fund. Other investors in Windsurf include Greenoaks, Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst.
Wu said the acquisition ensured that all windsurfing employees were “respected and fully cared for in this deal.” The memo shows that all employees will be financially involved in the transaction, and the work so far has abandoned the cliff of attribution and obtained a completely accelerated attribution.
“Never had a more exciting moment to build,” Wu wrote.
