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Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind AI talent

Microsoft Poaches Google’s DeepMind AI Researchers for Copilot
Meta invested $14.3 billion in data-labelling startup Scale AI and poached its CEO to lead the new division. Zuckerberg reportedly also secured Apple’s top AI executive, Ruoming Pang, with a compensation package worth over $200 million, and is spending hundreds of billions to build two massive data centres.
Microsoft snapped up dozens of Google DeepMind staffers in recent months: Report
The migration comes amid a rapidly intensifying war for AI talent, where researchers and engineers are being traded like star athletes.
Microsoft poaches top Google DeepMind staff in AI talent war
Microsoft has recruited more than 20 artificial intelligence employees from Google’s DeepMind research division, the newest front in a talent war being waged by Silicon Valleys
Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind AI talent as it beefs up Copilot
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence group has been growing under Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of the DeepMind research lab Google acquired years ago.
Microsoft expands AI team with key Google DeepMind hires
Among new hires, former Google Gemini engineering lead Amar Subramanya joined Microsoft AI as corporate vice-president.
Microsoft poaches 24 AI stars from Google to supercharge Copilot — despite DeepMind's ironclad noncompete clauses and lavish year-long PTO
Microsoft recently poached approximately 24 employees from Google's DeepMind AI lab to bolster its Copilot efforts.
Microsoft poaches Amar Subramanya, ex-head of Gemini at Google, as VP of AI
Microsoft has hired more than 20 artificial intelligence pros from Google’s DeepMind unit in the past six months, intensifying Silicon Valley’s escalating race for elite AI talent. The recruitment wave includes Amar Subramanya,
Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart
As of Friday, Windsurf’s head of business, Jeff Wang, will take over as the startup’s interim CEO, he announced in a post on ...
Google snatches Windsurf execs in a $2.4B deal, derailing OpenAI’s biggest acquisition yet
In a stunning reversal, Google DeepMind acquires Windsurf’s top talent just weeks after OpenAI’s $3B deal collapsed over IP ...
Vinod Khosla says Windsurf's founders abandoned their team: 'I definitely would not work with their founders next time'
The founders of Windsurf, an AI startup, left the company for Google Deepmind just after a deal to sell it to OpenAI fell ...
Windsurf CEO opens up about ‘very bleak’ mood before Cognition deal
Days after AI coding startup Windsurf announced that it’s being acquired by Cognition, Windsurf exec Jeff Wang took to X to ...
Google Spends $2.4B on Windsurf to Advance Its ‘Agentic Coding’
OpenAI’s $3B bid to acquire Windsurf collapsed after talks stalled, clearing the path for Google to license its AI coding ...
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some ...
Google Hires A.I. Leaders From a Start-Up Courted by OpenAI
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to ...
Who is Varun Mohan? Indian-origin CEO of Windsurf faces backlash after quitting startup for Google, derailing $3B OpenAI deal
Varun Mohan, Windsurf co-founder, faced criticism for joining Google DeepMind. This happened after a $3 billion OpenAI acquisition fell through. The m ...
Google hires Windsurf CEO and researchers to advance AI ambitions
Google has hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and select members of the coding tool's research and ...