Google’s AI Talent Raids: Character AI and Windsurf

Google Deals

Character AI (~$2.7B)

Noam Shazeer co-authored ‘Attention Is All You Need.’ Google paid $2.7B to bring him back. You can’t price the inventor of transformers—but $2.7B comes close.

Windsurf ($2.4B)

72-hour collapse: OpenAI offer expires Friday, Google swoops, Cognition buys shell by Monday. $3B unicorn to husk in a weekend.


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