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Launches and products
11 Jul 2025Google DeepMind / WindsurfGoogle licenses Windsurf tech, hires its CEO Google pays $2.4B to license Windsurf technology and hire CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and researchers after OpenAI's $3B deal lapsed.11 Jul 2025Moonshot AIKimi K2 1T-parameter (32B active) open-weights MoE trained with the MuonClip optimizer on 15.5T tokens, with zero reported loss spikes and a focus on agentic tool use.
People and teams
Douglas ChenWindsurf → Google DeepMind. Joined Google with Varun Mohan in the licensing-and-hiring deal; co-founders' share was a substantial portion of the roughly $1.2B compensation half (TechCrunch).
Varun MohanWindsurf → Google DeepMind. Google paid $2.4B to license Windsurf tech and hire Mohan, Douglas Chen and about 40 staff after OpenAI's $3B purchase fell apart; Windsurf's remaining employees got little (TechCrunch).