Google beats OpenAI to hire Indian-origin techie Varun, use his startup's tech for $2.4 bn

Ashley Paul, Published on Jul 12th, 2025

Google beats OpenAI to hire Indian-origin techie Varun, use his startup's tech for $2.4 bn

Google announced it'll be onboarding Indian-origin techie Varun Mohan in a deal to use his startup Windsurf's technology reportedly for $2.4 billion, months after OpenAI tried the same thing. The deal will see Windsurf Co-founder Douglas Chen and some R&D employees also joining Google DeepMind. Google will get non-exclusive license to Windsurf technologies but won't own a stake in it.

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