Cognition, the starting of the AI encoding that acquired the Windsurf rival company three weeks ago, enjoyed 30 employees last week and offers acquisitions of about 200 remaining team employees, Reports the information.
This is Whiplash’s last race faced by Windsurf employees after a hectic area for the company. The start was initially acquired by Openai, then lost the Managing Director, Co-Founder and research that leads to Google in an agreement of $ 2.4 billion, known as the reverse-sound (where Google hired the basic talent and not the market for the company).
At the time of the acquisition, Cognition said that 100% of Windsurf employees would receive financial compensation as part of the deal and stressed that the company was excited to bring Windsurf’s “world -class people” to develop top encoding tools.
Now, it is clear that Windsurf’s intellectual property, not his talent, was the real market.
According to an email observed the information, employees were given by August 10 to decide whether they wanted to receive the acquisition, which was nine months of salary. Those who choose to stay are required to spend six days in the office and clock more than 80 hours weeks Betting Betting between employees at the top AI companies.
“We do not believe in the balance of work-personal life -The construction of the future of mechanical software is a mission that all of us are so deeply interested in what we could not separate the two,” wrote Cognitive Cognition Scott Wu in e-mail.
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