Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent

(Bloomberg) – Google was concluded from Alphabet Inc. A deal to pay about $ 2.4 billion to the highest talent and licensing rights from Windsurf to start the coding of artificial intelligence after the collapse of the Windsurf agreement that will be purchased by the Google Openai competitor, according to the people familiar with the matter.

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Google appoints the CEO of one, Farun Mohan and co -founder Douglas Chen, along with a small group of employees, to work in the deep artificial intelligence unit, according to Friday statement. The company refused to comment on the financial conditions, which said not to include a share in Windsurf.

Windsurf previously agreed to buy it by Openai for $ 3 billion, but the deal was partially revealed due to tension with Microsoft Corp. And a major investor in Openai, people who have knowledge of the issue, who asked not to know to discuss special deliberations and purchase conditions.

The familiar people said that Windsurf did not want Microsoft the ability to reach its intellectual ownership – a case that Openai did not succeed in obtaining the Microsoft Agreement. That was one of the many thorny points in the Microsoft and Openai’s ongoing conversations about the efforts of the AI to restructure into a commercial entity. The current Microsoft Convention with Openai says the program giant is entitled to access the startup technology.

Openai believed that it has an agreement with Windsurf and almost announced the acquisition in early May, according to the people familiar with the deal. People said that there was a signature letter, and Windsurf investors were granted what is known as waterfall agreements, and each party informs the amount of money that was expected to earn.

A spokesman for Openai said on Friday that the uniqueness of the acquisition offer has passed, leaving Windsurf free thinking about other bids. Microsoft and Windsurf rejected the comment.

The major technology companies provide executives and technology from promising startups in artificial intelligence as part of the deals that stop full recovery operations – the moves that some critics have said to avoid checking the fight against monopoly.

Last year, Microsoft rented the founders and many reflection employees of artificial intelligence and the company’s AI’s license. In similar arrangements, Amazon.com Inc. Senior CEO and other employees from ADEPT AI LABS Inc. Google brought Farky.ai founders as part of a license deal. Despite the transactions structures, government organizers have opened investigations into some of these types of deals.