Amir Efrati
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Alex Wang timed his exit perfectly. Scale AI was being beaten by a startup rival that never raised VC and was profitable the whole time
this reveal about Surge AI continues to reverberate across X more than a month later, albeit nobody credits the source :)
Alex Wang timed his exit perfectly. Scale AI was being beaten by a startup rival that never raised VC and was profitable the whole time
Cursor this, Cursor that. ChatGPT still the coding app king (even if it’s not entirely apples to apples)
Talent war in AI is crazy. Latest example:
Scoop: Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are back at Anthropic, two weeks after joining Cursor. 🤯🤯🤯 theinformation.com/briefings/anth…
Updated our Windsurf/Google story with new deal details: - Employees with vested shares will receive cash – Employees who joined less than 12 months ago are not vested and won’t get payouts under current terms – Windsurf negotiated to keep $100M+ on its balance sheet; company…
update: Google paying $2.4b for Windsurf IP, team. that's less than it paid to get Noam Shazeer back last year.
Big news: OpenAI deal for Windsurf is OFF