{"id":945984,"date":"2025-07-12T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945984"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:37:06","slug":"google-hires-windsurf-ceo-and-researchers-to-advance-ai-ambitions-openai-acquisition-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/12\/google-hires-windsurf-ceo-and-researchers-to-advance-ai-ambitions-openai-acquisition-falls-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hires Windsurf CEO and researchers to advance AI ambitions; OpenAI acquisition falls apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google has hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf, a Google spokesperson said on Friday, in a surprise move following an attempt by its rival OpenAI to acquire the startup. <\/p>\n<p>Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and select members of the coding tool&#8217;s research and development team will join Google&#8217;s DeepMind artificial intelligence division, the Google spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google has hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf, a Google spokesperson said on Friday, in a surprise move following an attempt by its rival OpenAI to acquire the startup. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and select members of the coding tool&#8217;s research and development team will join Google&#8217;s DeepMind artificial intelligence division, the Google spokesperson said.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945984","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=945984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}