In a stunning reversal, Google DeepMind acquires Windsurf’s top talent just weeks after OpenAI’s $3B deal collapsed over IP tensions with Microsoft.

Investing.com -- Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf, following the collapse of Windsurf’s previously planned $3 billion acquisition by OpenAI.

Cognition Labs is an applied AI lab founded in November 2023 by Olympiad gold‑medalist programmers Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan. Its flagship product is Devin, marketed as the first autonomous AI software engineer that can plan, write, debug, and deploy code within IDE environments.