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.

Google has joined Silicon Valley’s scramble to scoop up artificial intelligence engineers, hiring the leaders of Windsurf, a start-up that developed an A.I.-powered computer programming tool.

The deal, which became public on Friday, was the latest example of how tech companies are waging battles to suck up A.I. talent. The move deepens Google’s bench of A.I. engineers while also scoring it a point against OpenAI, one of its biggest challengers in the field.

In May, OpenAI was in talks to acquire Windsurf in a $3 billion deal that would help add thousands of new customers and expand OpenAI’s offerings. But the talks broke down in recent weeks because Windsurf’s leaders had concerns about the information it might have to share about its product with Microsoft, one of