A lot of plays are going on in Silicon Valley around AI talent. Meta is actively having an engineers poaching prominently, while Google has also hired the top talent of Windsurf. But the Windsurf deal has so far been controversial with many people, claiming that it earned great money to some people in Windsurf, while others lost out with equity. Now a top engineer engineer has publicly announced that he has rejected the Google Deepmind proposal after receiving a fraction of his expected payment from Google from Google and is leaving in AII.

Engineer, Prem Nair revealed that he had received a proposal from Google, but lost 99 percent of his expected payment in the process while joining it.

Prem Qu Nair revealed in a post on X (East Twitter), “I was eventually paid only 1 percent, which was worth the time of my shares.” He shared that his decision to move into the sensation was both a individual and professional reset after a high pressure, described as a zero-leading position. He said, “I was made a proposal that would explode on the same day. I had to seize all my inherent shares earned in my 3.5+ years in Windsurf,” he wrote.

Nair revealed that he was employee number 2 in Windsurf and played an important role in his AI+Code Initiative. He was also one of the dozens of employees caught in view of the company being rapidly uncontrolled.

The company recently worked with Openai and Google after a play around Windsurf. It was once designed by Openai for an acquisition of $ 3 billion, but the deal was allegedly collapsed due to demands from Microsoft on intellectual property. Google quickly intervened with an “Aqui-Hare”, with the founders of Windsurf, including CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen, and achieved 42 of its top engineers for a non-educated license and deepmind to their core technology. The company allegedly signed a $ 2.4 billion non-exclusive technology license with Windsurf.

However, the deal has abandoned more than 200 employees, including members of the early team, it has not received much or no compensation.

Now, Nair is adding to the discussion. They have rejected Google and have joined the creators of the Dewin coding agent, Cognition AI, as the company wants to expand its position in AI-operated software development. He wrote, “There has never been a more exciting time and place in the feeling than now.” “It reminds me of the energy of the early days of the windsurf, where we wrote an excessive amount and had excessive amount of fun.”

In particular, Anubhuti recently achieved that Google remained with Windsurf, its employees, IP and development infrastructure in a follow -up deal after scooping parts of it. Anubhuti has promised quickly vested and equity partnership for the remaining team members.