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Devin Desktop
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Cognition (formerly Windsurf)
Windsurf became Devin Desktop in June. Cognition: $48B valuation, ~$1B annualized revenue, and new Devin Oncall for production alerts.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Devin
- Autonomous cloud software engineer.
- Devin Desktop
- IDE with a Kanban board for local and cloud agents. Devin Local replaced Cascade.
- Devin Security · SWE-2 Flash
- Vulnerability find-and-fix agent (26 Oct), strengthened by the Corridor acquisition; SWE-2 Flash is Cognition's cheap fast coding model (4 Nov).
Recent news
- Cognition launches SWE-2 Flash, a cheap, fast coding model in DevinAbout a fifth of SWE-2's cost at 3x the speed, built on Thinking Machines' Inkling.Cognition ↗
- Cognition acquires security startup CorridorCorridor's team will build out the newly launched Devin Security.Cognition ↗
- Cognition launches Devin Oncall to investigate production alertsCognition says it already handles thousands of alerts a day at large companies; pushes Devin into site-reliability work.FourWeekMBA ↗
- Cognition raises $2B+ at $48B valuation as revenue nears $900MNearly doubles its May valuation and makes Cognition the largest independent AI coding companySiliconANGLE ↗
- Cognition reportedly reaches $1B annualized revenueRevenue roughly doubled in four months per a Bloomberg-sourced report, backing the $48B valuation.Startup Fortune ↗
- SpaceX approached Cognition about an acquisition; Cognition declined to engageAfter buying Cursor, SpaceX also tried for the other top independent coding companyBloomberg ↗
- Cognition acquires Poke, the texting-native personal agentExtends Cognition beyond coding into consumer personal agentsCognition ↗
- Windsurf is rebranded as Devin Desktop with an Agent Command CenterThe Windsurf brand is retired, and the IDE now manages Devin, Claude and Codex agents from one Kanban viewDevin blog ↗
- Cognition raises over $1B at a $26B valuationThe valuation is 2.5x the September 2025 round and makes Cognition a top-tier independentWikipedia ↗
- Cognition in talks at $25B as ARR nears $1BARR roughly doubled after the Windsurf acquisition, validating the IDE plus autonomous agent bundleIdlen ↗
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