VCs and founders took much of the $2.4 billion, but money was left for a payout to all employees, sources say.

The whipsawing of Windsurf employees and the unusual cleaving of the company into separate parts have left a bitter taste in ...

Cognition Labs has offered buyouts to 200 former Windsurf employees and laid off 30 others, telling the rest to commit to six ...

The founder and a few core staff get to build big things at Google, while the rest of the Windsurf is still protected as a ...

Varun Mohans exit from Windsurf to Google DeepMind disrupts a potential sale and receives backlash from industry leaders and ...

Beyond internal efforts, Google is bolstering its AI push through acquisitions. In July, the company acquired high-profile AI ...

Varun Mohan, a math prodigy turned MIT engineer, co-founded Windsurf, an AI startup revolutionizing software development.

Change in Enterprise LLM API Market Share By the end of 2023, OpenAI commanded 50% of the enterprise LLM market, but its early lead has eroded. Today, it captures just 25% of enterprise usage—half of ...

Rillet, a San Francisco-based startup aiming to modernize enterprise accounting with artificial intelligence, has raised $70 ...

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1 today, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model that achieves 74.5% accuracy on ...

Windsurf’s Indian-origin CEO Varun Mohan is facing backlash for joining Google after a deal to sell the startup to OpenAI for $3 billion fell through.

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