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OpenAI's $3B acquisition of Windsurf collapsed into a Google asset deal and a Cognition rescue that swept up the employees left behind.
Jump to timeline ↓OpenAI's $3 billion purchase of Windsurf was read as consolidation of the application layer — until it fell apart.
What replaced it was a two-part unwind: Google bought the assets, and Cognition bought the company, a structure that existed largely so the employees Google's asset purchase had excluded could land somewhere.
