Cognition
Cognition builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and owns the former Windsurf IDE. Founded in 2023, headquartered in San Francisco, with Scott Wu as CEO (per the vault excerpt and Wikipedia; founding month and founder background are not verified).
Products
- Devin: autonomous coding agent.
- Windsurf: agentic IDE, relaunched on 2026-06-02 as Devin Desktop, the human-facing front end for Devin (see windsurf-to-devin-transition).
- DeepWiki: AI-generated documentation for repositories (not verified in this pass).
Timeline
- 2025-07: Windsurf saga. press reports say OpenAI’s bid fell through, Google paid about $2.4B for a licence and hired Windsurf’s CEO and senior staff, and Cognition then signed a definitive agreement to acquire the rest of Windsurf (2025-07-14; secondary, not verified against a primary source).
- 2025-09: reportedly valued at $10B (secondary; not verified).
- 2026-05: reportedly raised more than 26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC; reported run-rate revenue about $492M (secondary press, not verified).
- 2026-06-02: Windsurf rebranded as Devin Desktop (Cognition announcement).
- 2026-08: Bloomberg reported early talks on new financing at a valuation of at least $40B (report only, unconfirmed outcome).
- Cognition says Devin writes about 89% of its own committed code (company claim, via press).
Compare: cursor (Anysphere, reportedly acquired by SpaceX in 2026, see anysphere).
Open items
- Funding and revenue figures are from press and Wikipedia, not a Cognition announcement.
- The $40B round is not confirmed.
Sources (fetched 2026-10-05)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition_AI (secondary)
- https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop
- https://www.turingpost.com/p/cognition, https://techfundingnews.com/the-ai-startup-replacing-software-engineers-just-raised-1b-at-26b-valuation-and-it-is-already-writing-89-of-cognitions-own-code/