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Codeium rebranded its AI IDE as Windsurf in late 2024 and grew into one of the most-used Cursor alternatives. Google announced an unusual $2.4B licensing deal in July 2025 that took CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and the core research team to DeepMind without buying the company. Two days later, Cognition (maker of Devin) acquired the remaining Windsurf product, IP, and employees for an undisclosed sum. Windsurf now operates as a Cognition brand.
Disco Diffusion was a free Google Colab notebook by Somnai that combined CLIP-guided diffusion with a community-tuned UI, going viral in early 2022 and seeding the prompt-engineering culture later cemented by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Active development on the official notebook effectively stopped in late 2022 once Stable Diffusion released and consumed the open-source diffusion community. The notebook still loads but is years out of date and runs poorly on modern Colab runtimes.
Ad-free, AI-powered search engine founded by ex-Google exec that aimed to provide unbiased search results.
Google's AI assistant, originally Bard, rebranded to Gemini with multimodal capabilities.