Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a startup. Windsurf, an AI company based in Mountain View, began last week as a reported $3 billion acquisition target for OpenAI.

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web.

The motivation behind this new browser, as Reuters points out, is to get more direct access to the user data that Google siphons off through Chrome. That data could serve a few purposes for OpenAI, particularly as a new well of training data for its AI models and as a source of revenue from targeted ads.