Cognition

Cognition builds autonomous software-engineering agents. Devin helped establish the AI software engineer as a real product category, and the 2025 acquisition of Windsurf gave it an editor, an enterprise sales force and hundreds of thousands of developers.

• Valued at $26B in June 2026.
• Devin now runs long, multi-hour engineering tasks with parallel agents in enterprise codebases.
• Windsurf integration brought Cognition agents into a full IDE.

Software engineering is the first profession being transformed end to end by agents. Cognition is one of the two or three companies defining what that looks like.

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