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Cognition
Maker of Devin, an AI software engineer, and the Windsurf code editor
San Francisco, US
Founded 2023
201-500 employees
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Cognition builds AI tools that write and maintain software. Scott Wu, Steven Hao and Walden Yan founded the company in 2023. Several of its early staff are known for their results in international programming contests. It is based in San Francisco.
Its first product is Devin, an AI agent that takes a task, plans the work, writes code, runs tests and opens pull requests. Engineers assign Devin tickets through tools they already use, such as Slack and issue trackers, and review its output. In 2025 Cognition acquired Windsurf, an AI code editor, which gave it a product that developers use directly while they write code.
Cognition sells mainly to engineering teams at companies, including large enterprises and banks that want to automate migrations, bug fixes and other routine work. Customers pay based on how much work the agents do. Scott Wu is chief executive. The company has raised several funding rounds and remains privately held.
Its first product is Devin, an AI agent that takes a task, plans the work, writes code, runs tests and opens pull requests. Engineers assign Devin tickets through tools they already use, such as Slack and issue trackers, and review its output. In 2025 Cognition acquired Windsurf, an AI code editor, which gave it a product that developers use directly while they write code.
Cognition sells mainly to engineering teams at companies, including large enterprises and banks that want to automate migrations, bug fixes and other routine work. Customers pay based on how much work the agents do. Scott Wu is chief executive. The company has raised several funding rounds and remains privately held.
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