Cognition Acquires Windsurf, Combining Devin with Windsurf's AI Coding IDE

Summary

Windsurf has announced it is being acquired by Cognition, the company behind Devin, the autonomous software engineering agent. The acquisition combines Windsurf's AI-powered coding IDE and its user base with Cognition's agentic coding capabilities. Cognition has raised over $300M from Founders Fund and others, with a most recent valuation of $4B. The deal represents significant consolidation in the AI-assisted development tooling space, merging an AI-native IDE (Windsurf, formerly Codeium) with