硅谷AI人才争夺战愈演愈烈，初创公司Windsurf的早期工程师Prem Qu Nair披露，谷歌DeepMind曾向他发出“当日生效”的招聘Offer。Nair表示，他必须放弃在Windsurf工作三年半积累的全部股权，才能接受谷歌的职位。然而，他最终选择留在Windsurf的竞争对手Cognition，后者收购了Windsurf的剩余部分。此举反映了AI领域人才招聘的激烈竞争，企业为争夺顶尖人才不惜提供高额且有时间限制的职位邀约，同时也凸显了员工在面对巨头和初创公司之间的抉择困境。

🌟 **AI人才争夺白热化，谷歌开出“即日生效”Offer：** 报道揭示了硅谷AI领域人才招聘的激烈程度，谷歌DeepMind在近期招聘攻势中，向初创公司Windsurf的早期软件工程师Prem Qu Nair开出了“当日生效”的招聘Offer，显示出对顶尖AI人才的极度渴求和快速响应。

💼 **高额股权诱惑与个人选择：** Nair在接受谷歌Offer的同时，面临放弃在Windsurf积累的3.5年以上股权的抉择。最终，他选择留在Cognition，一家收购了Windsurf剩余业务的前竞争对手，这表明在职业发展和短期利益之间，个人选择至关重要，尤其是在充满不确定性的初创公司环境中。

🤝 **初创公司间的收购与人才转移：** Windsurf在与OpenAI的收购谈判破裂后，其CEO及多名高管被谷歌DeepMind挖走。随后，Cognition收购了Windsurf的剩余部分，并吸引了Nair的加入。这一系列事件反映了AI初创公司在竞争压力下，通过收购整合资源、争夺人才的策略。

💰 **“爆炸式”Offer成为常态：** 熟悉谷歌交易的人士透露，由于谈话进展迅速，为吸引人才加入，快速Offer成为常态。这些Offer在设计时会考虑到员工放弃初创公司股权所带来的经济损失，试图通过高薪或其他补偿来弥补，但这种“爆炸式”Offer也给员工带来了巨大的压力和决策挑战。

🚀 **Meta等巨头加入人才争夺：** 文章指出，谷歌并非唯一一家积极争夺AI人才的公司。Meta等科技巨头也在夏季通过高额薪酬方案（如OpenAI的AI研究员收到高达1亿美元的职位Offer）积极挖角AI工程师和研究人员，整个行业的人才争夺战已经进入白热化阶段。

The competition over AI talent in Silicon Valley shows no signs of slowing down.A software engineer at Windsurf said Google approached him with a "same day" exploding offer.Instead, the engineer said he chose Congition, Windsurf's former competitor that acquired the company.

Those job offers flying left and right in the heat of the AI talent wars? They sometimes have a lit fuse attached.

Prem Qu Nair, an early software engineer at Windsurf, said Google gave him an exploding job offer to join its DeepMind lab during its recent hiring blitz at the AI coding startup. In his case, Nair said he only had hours to consider Google's offer or it would be taken off the table.

"I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years," Nair wrote on X on Thursday.

"I was given an offer that would explode same day," Nair wrote on X on Thursday. "I had to forfeit all of my vested shares earned over my 3.5+ years at Windsurf. I was ultimately given a payout of only 1% of what my shares would have been worth at the time of the deal."

Nair said he chose to stay and join Cognition, a former Windsurf competitor that acquired what remained of the startup after a reported $3 billion acquisition deal with OpenAI fell apart and Google DeepMind swooped in to hire away its CEO and other top executives, all in a matter of days earlier this month.

A person familiar with the Google deal told Business Insider that the talks moved rapidly, necessitating rapid offers for anyone who wished to join the group leaving Windsurf. The person said the swift pace has become commonplace for these types of AI-related deals and the job offers took into account the financial hit Windsurf employees would take by forgoing their shares in the startup.

Nair said in his social media post that he's excited for Cognition's future.

"For someone who loves software engineering, Cognition feels like home," he wrote. "It reminds me of the energy of the earliest days of Windsurf, where we wrote excessive amounts of code and had excessive amounts of fun."

A spokesperson for Windsurf said it was "thrilled" Nair was staying on.

"As one of the early minds of Windsurf, we are thrilled to have Prem and his great expertise working alongside us again at Cognition," Windsurf spokesperson Payal Patel said in a statement to BI.

Google is far from the only company making aggressive talent plays for AI engineers and researchers. Silicon Valley is awash in lucrative offers this summer as Big Tech companies try to hire away everyone from startup CEOs to engineers and researchers.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta has offered up to $100 million compensation packages in an attempt to poach its AI researchers. Meta later said OpenAI often countered those offers. Anthropic cofounder Benjamin Mann said his firm has been "less affected" by Meta's poaching efforts than others.

Meta kicked off the recruiting spree in June when it hired Scale CEO Alexandr Wang as part of a $14.3 billion deal to take a 49% stake in his company.