{"id":946386,"date":"2025-07-14T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946386"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:14:21","slug":"google-strikes-2-4-bn-deal-with-windsurf-to-hire-ceo-varun-mohan-get-ai-licensing-rights-after-openai-talks-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/google-strikes-2-4-bn-deal-with-windsurf-to-hire-ceo-varun-mohan-get-ai-licensing-rights-after-openai-talks-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Google strikes $2.4 bn deal with Windsurf, to hire CEO Varun Mohan, get AI licensing rights after OpenAI talks collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has finalised a $2.4 billion deal to recruit top executives and licensing rights of artificial intelligence startup Windsurf. The deal comes after talks between Windsurf and Google&#8217;s competitor OpenAI stalled, news agency Bloomberg reported, citing people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>Google is recruiting Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and a few staff members, who will join its DeepMind artificial intelligence team unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has finalised a $2.4 billion deal to recruit top executives and licensing rights of artificial intelligence startup Windsurf. The deal comes after talks between Windsurf and Google&#8217;s competitor OpenAI stalled, news agency Bloomberg reported, citing people aware of the development. Google is recruiting Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and a few staff members, who will join its DeepMind artificial intelligence team unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946386","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}