Google pays $2.4B to license Windsurf data, hire its CEO, WSJ says | Markets Insider

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Alphabet’s (GOOGL) (GOOG) Google will pay about $2.4B to license the technology of the artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf and hire its CEO and some of its team, Berber Jin and Katherine Blunt of Wall Street Journal report, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal comes after talks for OpenAI to acquire Windsurf stalled, sources told the Journal. Google is hiring a small number of Windsurf employees to focus on agentic coding within its DeepMind division, according to the paper. Google isn’t taking a stake in Windsurf.

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