Sharing the same, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis welcomed the duo and the rest of the engineers from Windsurf AI. He wrote, “ Excited to be working with them to turbocharge our Gemini efforts on coding agents, tool use, and much more .”

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan & co-founder Douglas Chen to lead its Gemini AI project, signalling a major move in the AI talent war against rivals like OpenAI