{"id":1012871,"date":"2026-06-08T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012871"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:27:55","slug":"meet-varun-mohan-the-indian-origin-ai-founder-at-the-heart-of-googles-coding-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/meet-varun-mohan-the-indian-origin-ai-founder-at-the-heart-of-googles-coding-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Varun Mohan, the Indian-origin AI founder at the heart of Google\u2019s coding ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its effort to expand its AI-powered coding tech capabilities, Google last year hired several employees from Windsurf, a startup building AI development tools. A key figure in the development was Windsurf chief executive and co-founder Varun Mohan. He and fellow co-founder Douglas Chen joined Google after Windsurf became the focus of intense interest from major AI companies, including OpenAI, which was reportedly engaged in discussions over a possible takeover of the startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its effort to expand its AI-powered coding tech capabilities, Google last year hired several employees from Windsurf, a startup building AI development tools. A key figure in the development was Windsurf chief executive and co-founder Varun Mohan. He and fellow co-founder Douglas Chen joined Google after Windsurf became the focus of intense interest from major AI companies, including OpenAI, which was reportedly engaged in discussions over a possible takeover of the startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012891,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012871\/revisions\/1012891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}