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5 facts from 3 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Dohmke says top AI engineers, including the Windsurf team and people courted by Meta, receive offers comparable to professional basketball players' contracts.
“get offers that match professional basketball players. Some of them even have agents helping them to land a new contract”
2025
Alex Heath says Google hired the Windsurf team after Windsurf could not complete a sale to OpenAI.
“Google ultimately ended up hiring that team from Windsurf, is that the company wasn't able to sell to OpenAI”
2025
Heath says the OpenAI-Windsurf deal was hampered by concern that Windsurf's intellectual property would not be shielded from Microsoft.
“Because there was a concern that the IP from Windsurf was not going to be shielded from Microsoft”
2025
Alex Heath cites Google's deal with Windsurf and Meta's deal with Scale AI as later examples of 'reverse acquihires'.
“And, you know, the most recent example is Windsurf and Google, and then there was Scale AI and Meta before that.”
Undated
Cory Hymel cited a roughly $2 billion Windsurf deal for its top 20 engineers, and Meta paying an AI engineer $3 million a year, as examples of the AI talent war.
“Meta or Google buying Windsurf for 2 billion, only to get their top 20 engineers, or Meta paying AI engineer $3 million a year to come in”
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