{"id":946035,"date":"2025-07-12T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946035"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:50:57","slug":"google-hires-windsurf-ceo-varun-mohan-and-team-amid-ai-talent-war-skips-3billion-openai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/12\/google-hires-windsurf-ceo-varun-mohan-and-team-amid-ai-talent-war-skips-3billion-openai-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and team amid AI talent war; skips $3billion OpenAI deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Google announced it hired Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of AI coding startup Windsurf. This move is part of a big battle between tech companies trying to grab the best AI talent. Google is not buying Windsurf or investing in it. Instead, it will license some of its technology, but non-exclusively, meaning Windsurf can still share it with others, according to the report by CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Google announced it hired Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of AI coding startup Windsurf. This move is part of a big battle between tech companies trying to grab the best AI talent. Google is not buying Windsurf or investing in it. Instead, it will license some of its technology, but non-exclusively, meaning Windsurf can still share it with others, according to the report by CNBC.<\/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-946035","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\/946035","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=946035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}