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Cognition

Application

AI coding agents building Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, and Devin Desktop, the coding environment that absorbed Windsurf after Cognition acquired it — windsurf.com and codeium.com both redirect here now, with no surface of their own left.

Total funding$1B

Valuation$26B

Employees250

Founded2023

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Devin AI agent Sold on its own

  Autonomous coding agent that plans, writes, tests and ships code from a task description.

• Devin Desktop Developer tool Sold on its own

  Desktop coding environment running Devin's agents locally, including custom background agents that carry a team's context between sessions.

Inside Devin

• Fusion Developer tool Included with the parent

  Multi-agent coding architecture pairing a frontier 'lead' model (planning/review) with a cost-efficient 'sidekick' (execution), up to 39% more efficient than other coding harnesses on major benchmarks; available now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI.

Inside Devin Desktop

• Devin CLI AI agent Included with the parent

  Local command-line coding agent that runs in the developer's terminal against local files, with Devin Cloud integration; bundled with Devin Desktop and presented by Cognition as a separate tool from the cloud-based Devin.

Closest alternatives 2

AHAll Hands AIPrivate · $23.8M raisedAll Hands AI names Cognition as a competitor in AI-assisted coding.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCode with an AI assistantCompareCCursorAcquired ($60B deal)Windsurf/Devin Desktop is consistently listed as a top Cursor alternative in the AI-IDE category.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCode with an AI assistantCompare

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Sources

Valuation

News reporting · 27 May 2026

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation, TechCrunch, 2026-05-27. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-05-27. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · Apr 2026

Forbes company profile for Cognition, "Employees" stated as of April 2026. Read 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Infobox: "Founded November 2023; 2 years ago (2023-11)". Corrects the previously recorded 2024.

Description

Company disclosure · 21 Sep 2026

Cognition's own homepage heading: "Cognition operates Devin, the first autonomous software engineer." Windsurf is recorded here as a FACT, not as its own card. windsurf.com and codeium.com both redirect to https://devin.ai/desktop, first observed 2026-08-25 and re-confirmed 2026-09-21; neither domain publishes a price list, a company page or any surface of its own.

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