Cognitivethe starting behind the viral Ai -coding agent Devinannounced in a Blog post Monday that it signed a definitive agreement to obtain Ai coding startup Windsurfing.
The ad comes just days after Google hired the Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $ 2.4 billion agreement, an inverse reception, which left the rest of the runway’s 250-person team behind. The Google Agreement took place just hours after Openai’s $ 3 billion offer to get Windsurf expired, clearing the way for the start of AI encoding to explore other options.
The fury to get Windsurf represents a new peak in the crazy race to develop AI code products.
“The last 72 hours were the wildest wheel drive of my career,” said Jeff Wang, the former Windsurf Business Head, who was made acting general manager of the starting days before Google hired the heads of the runway, in Post on LinkedIn. “To our new teammates at Cognition: We at Windsurf feel incredibly lucky to be joining a team that shares our vision, our deep commitment with our users and – most importantly – our values.”
Cognition says it acquires the IP and product of Windsurf, which includes its AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE), along with all employees who were not employed by Google.
Kognon did not announce the price for which it got Windsurf; However, the company says that Windsurf has reached $ 82 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), with a corporate ARR double quarter quarter. Cognition says the Windsurf user base has reached at least 350 corporate customers and “hundreds of thousands” of daily active users.
The Windsurf team will focus on building Devin, Cognition’s AI coding agent, in the mid -term, the company said in a press release. Eventually, Cognition says it will integrate Windsurf’s IP and capabilities into its own products.
Over the weekend, the information reported that Windsurf employees who joined in the last year did not receive payment in the billion billion in reverse charge of Google. Cognitive notes on its blog that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal, and will have cliffs for their work for their work so far.
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