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Cognition Acquires Windsurf to Power Its Devin AI Coding Platform

Cognition aims to accelerate Devin’s development by integrating Windsurf’s IP alongside a team with waived vesting cliffs

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai attends a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 13, 2025. The battle over artificial intelligence’s future has drawn focus to Bay Area tech’s top executives.

Overview

  • The definitive agreement transfers Windsurf’s intellectual property, product suite, trademark and remaining 250-person team to Cognition.
  • Cognition offers 100% financial participation for all Windsurf employees, waiving vesting cliffs and accelerating vesting for earlier hires.
  • Windsurf had grown to $82 million in annualized recurring revenue with over 350 enterprise clients and hundreds of thousands of daily active users.
  • Earlier in July, Google secured a $2.4 billion reverse-acquihire of Windsurf’s founders and research leaders after OpenAI’s $3 billion proposal lapsed.
  • Cognition plans to integrate Windsurf’s AI-powered IDE into its Devin platform and eventually embed the technology across its broader product ecosystem.