Cognition AI, the startup behind AI coding agent Devin has raised $400 million in its latest round
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Cognition acquires AI coding startup Windsurf, gaining its IP, talent, and user base, strengthening its position to compete with OpenAI, Cursor, and Anthropic.
Google has hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and key team members, following a $2.4B tech licensing deal. The move boosts Google’s AI coding push as Meta and OpenAI race for top AI talent. While the OpenAI acquisition deal did not take place.
Vibe-coding startup Windsurf revealed that Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models
Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, is like Cursor and Replit — a tool developers use to “vibe code,” which means to have AI models assemble code quickly for new software