Cognition AI has acquired Windsurf after Google hired its CEO and top executives in a $2.4 billion deal, securing Windsurf’s product, team, and growing business.

After OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf deal collapsed, Google hired its CEO Varun Mohan and key staff. Now, Cognition has officially acquired Windsurf, continuing the talent wars dominating the AI world.

Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a ...