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Self -AI coding startup Insertion Have signed a Definite contract To get Wind surfAI developer tools startup is the most famous for its agent integrated development environment (IDE). Both companies made this announcement on their respective X Accounts On Monday, no acquisition amount was disclosed publicly, nor were the specific terms of the deal (both are private startups).
This acquisition gives the Wind Surf’s basic products, brands and the rest of the team access. Stuffy It was reported last week.
In a joint video posted on X -Scott Wu and Interim Wind Surf’s CEO Jeff Wang, the X -wide -based video, leaders said they would start integrating the sovereign AI -driven engineer Devon into Wind Surf’s IDE.
The purpose of this joint offer is to enable developers to plan tasks, assign code generation to AI agents and review bridges requests – all of this is within the same interface.
“This is a great fit,” said Wang. “Working with the best engineering team in space would be incredible unlock for our products and our going market team.”
In a company blog post which title is “Next chapter“Wang acknowledged direct internal volatility:” Last week, we lost our founders and our research team. “
He praised the rest of the staff for his professionalism during the transfer and emphasized that despite the disruption, “so much that makes us great is intact.”
According to Wang, Wind Surf has continued to double the quarter than the Enterprise Revenue Quarter and maintains hundreds of thousands of active users daily.
The deal emphasized that the deal included complete financial participation for Wind Surf employees, including forgiveness and high -speed westings.
Wang also said in the announcement video: “And of course, we are once again friends with Anthupak,” a clear reference to the Wind Surf’s separate AI model provider, which has resulted in the Anthropic Claude Models drawn from the list of options on which the developers are providing their Windsurf and Codecing.
But the new chapter follows a few months of chaos and scattered months that have been marked by abortion conversation, model access and major executive departures.
Exit Scattered Exit: Imports and users get, Google gets founder
On July 11, Google confirmed that it hired Varun Mohan, co -founder and CEO of Wind Surf, as well as other senior R&D team members.
CNBC reported that Google is paying $ 2.4 billion As part of the contract, compensation and licensing fees, including no unusual license to select wind surf technology.
Contracts Not Include any equity investment in the wind surf, nor fully acquisition of the company.
“We are excited to welcome some high AI coding talent in the Google Deep Mind from the Wind Surf team,” Google spokesman told CNBC.
In the meantime, Wind Surf maintains its ability to grant its technology license and will continue to operate independently under Wang’s leadership.
The splat structure reflects a scattered resolution that was previously described as a full -scale acquisition by Open.
Bloomberg It was reported again in May that Openi had entered into exemption negotiations to buy Wind Surf up to $ 3 billion. However, the talks were separated, and Openi later told the CNBC that the immunity period had expired.
Although the company has never officially confirmed the acquisition of Open I, the result was visible – Wind Surf’s communication channels were silenced, its products experienced instability and allegedly withdrew several partners.
Friend with anthropic once again
The most harmful blows came from Anthropic, which in early June canceled access to the Wind Surf’s Claude 3 Model Family.
In a statement Appeared on her blogWind Surf confirmed that Anthropic has eliminated almost all first -party API capacity for clouding 3.5 sons, cloud 3.7 sunts, and less than a week.
In response, Wind Surf had to remedy traffic through third -party interference providers and restrict access to free -tear users. The company also began promoting promotional pricing for Gemini Pro as a temporary alternative.
Anthropic co -founder Gerard Kapilin explained the decision Tech Crunch Session: AI 2025Saying that the company cannot justify the supply of its biggest competitors, openings, which can access its model through the middle layer.
“It would be strange for us to sell a cloud to the open,” he said, citing both competitive tension and the limited computer capacity of anthropic. Kapilin added that anthropic prefers to focus on “lasting partnership”, which causes it to remain with the cursor.
Wind Surf expressed frustration in his statement and emphasized that his platform was much more than accessing the model. The company wrote, “The magic of Wind Surf has never been limited to a model, highlighting UX features, enterprise integration and agent workflows.
A new product vision for joint wind surf/cognition/divein
The cognition contract now brings the necessary explanation in the operational direction of the wind surf. In a video announcing the agreement, Wu’s understanding explained how the two platforms would integrate: “Imagine planning works in the wind surf, launch a team of Daves, and review your IDE’s comfortable PRS.”
Divin, which can complete software tasks, such as fixing insects and deployment of apps, will now be embedded directly into the IDE of the wind surf.
Companies say the setup will provide developers in parallel to the ability to work repeatedly to several agents, while still controlling key architectural decisions.
The cognition sees it as the next step for the construction of the Human Agent System, and says that the IDE agent of the wind surf provides the lost interface layer to make the work flu scale. Both companies expressed confidence that consumers would benefit from more fluid, strongly integrated development experience.
The Wind Surf Blog Post also extended the product level projects, confirming that the current features of the wind surf, such as the tab and the cosmic-time, will remain connected to the IDEs used for high beneficial coding.
The developers will be able to assign work to a “Daves team” while jumping to complete or edit the complex parts. Wang wrote, “It goes together in the same environment without interruption.”
The stability between the competition
The joint cognition -ndsurf entity now competes directly with the players of the Gut Hub Copylot, the copy, the cursor and other AI AI. Google’s Gemini platform and Microsoft’s “Agent Mode” visual studio code are also spreading rapidly in this place.
Divin earlier this year made headlines due to the ability to solve Gutbub problems independently and complete coding tasks from the end to the end. Integrated this ability with the wind surf’s customized environment – which includes features such as previews, reviews and enterprise workflows – can create a product with less salvage and more automation than competitors.
Nevertheless, the ongoing talent war means competitive advantage is short life. Google’s Wind Surf’s founding team’s ability to hire the services-including Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen-indicates that even partial emissions also come with a multi-billion dollar value tags. Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have done similar movements, which absorb key figures from Scale AI, expert and infection, such as Startups.
Despite the leadership shake -up, the Wind Surf Wang led operations are continuing.
“Most of the Wind Surf’s world -class team will continue to build a wind surf product with the aim of maximizing its impact in the enterprise,” he said.
Wang also emphasized that the team chose not only the technical alignment but also the praise, citing other viable powers: “It was the only team we were afraid of.”
He said that the revenue of the cushion is growing faster than the wind surf, and that it reflects $ 300 million in financing and a strong financial base of $ 4 billion.
The company is expected to focus on the manufacture of enterprise, agent IDE capabilities and hybrid/federated deployment.
For developers, now the moving route includes both continuity and change: a product that survives within the cognition, now has the rapid stability around the founder team and a landscape model in the deep mind and the rapid stability around the engineering capabilities.
