Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

The independent awareness of the start of the AI coding has signed a final to acquire Windsurf, AI Developer Startup, known as the IDE integrated development environment (IDE). The two companies released the XX accounts on Monday. No amount of acquisition was publicly revealed, and there were no specific conditions for the deal (both of them are private starters).

The acquisition allows perceptual access to the basic product, brand, trademark, and the rest-but not the original CEO or participating founders, many of whom joined Google in a separate talent and licensing deal worth $ 2.4 billion, as Verge mentioned for the first time last week.

In a joint video posted on X, the CEO of Cograph, Scott WU, and CEO of Interim Windsurf Jeff Wang, the leaders said they will start by integrating the engineer who works independent Cography into IDE in Windsurf’s IDE.

This integrated offer aims to enable developers to plan tasks, generate the code to artificial intelligence agents and review withdrawal requests – all within one interface.

“This is perfectly suitable,” said Wang, who was head of Windsurf. “Working with the best engineering team in space will be an incredible opening for our products and the market for the market.”

In the company’s blog publication entitled “The Next Chapter”, Wang was directly admitted to internal turmoil: “Last week, we lost our founders and our search team.”

He praised the remaining employees for their professionalism during the transition and stressed that despite the turmoil, “a lot that makes us wonderful.”

According to Wangs, Windsurf continues to double the revenues of institutions a quarter of a quarter and maintain hundreds of thousands of daily active users.

The awareness stressed that the deal includes the full financial participation of Windsurf employees, including the slopes that are waived and accelerating.

Wang also stated in the advertising video: “Of course, we are friends with Antarbur again,” a public reference to the former Windsurf fall with the separate AI model provider that led to the withdrawal of Claude Antarbur models from the options list that developers can rely on to operate AI’s knee factors and operations.

However, the new chapter follows a few messages, chaotic and compact, characterized by the intercourse of intercourse conversations and reaching the missing models and major executive departments.

A divided out: perception gets the product and users, Google gets the founders

On July 11, Google confirmed that she rented Varun Mohan, co -founder and CEO of Windsurf, along with other senior R&D members.

CNBC reported that Google pays $ 2.4 billion of compensation and licensing fees as part of the deal, which includes an exclusive license to choose Windsurf.

The deal is no no It includes any stock in Windsurf, and no complete acquisition of the company.

“We are excited to welcome some AI’s best coding talents from Windsurf to Google DeepMind,” Google spokesman told CNBC.

Meanwhile, Windsurf maintains the ability to license its technology and will continue to work independently under the leadership of Wang.

The structure of the division reflects a decree divided into what was previously reported as an Openai’s wide acquisition.

Bloomberg It was reported again in May that Openai had entered exclusive negotiations to buy Windsurf for $ 3 billion. However, these conversations collapsed, and later reported CNBC that the unique period had ended.

Although the company did not formally confirm the Openai’s acquisition, the repercussions were visible – the silence of the Windsur communication channels, its products exceeded instability and the decline in multiple partners.

Friends with Antarbur again

Among the most harmful strikes came from Anthropor, which canceled Windorf’s arrival to the Model family of Claude 3 in early June.

In a statement posted on its blog, Windsurf confirmed that the Antarbur has almost cut all API capacity from the first party to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and related models with less than a week.

In response, Windsurf had to redirect traffic through a third -party inference and restrict access to free users. The company has also launched a promotional prices for Gemini Pro as a temporary alternative.

The co -founder of the Anchrubor Jared Kaplan explained the decision in Techcrunch sessions: AI 2025Saying that the company cannot justify the supply of its largest competitor, Openai, with the possibility of access to its models via a medium layer.

He said: “It will be strange for us to sell Claude to Openai,” referring to both competitive tension and limited ability to calculate man. Kaplan added that Antarbur prefers to focus on “permanent partnerships” such as those they keep with the index.

In his statement, Windsurf expressed his disappointment and stressed that its platform revolves around accessing the model. “Windsurf magic was not limited to the model,” the company wrote, highlighting UX features, integration of institutions and propelled workflow.

Seeing a new product for pillar

The perception agreement now brings a clarification that affects the need for Windsurf’s operation. In a video announcement of the deal, WU’s awareness describes how the two platforms will merge: “Imagine Windsur’s planning tasks, launch a team of Devins, and PRS review of your IDE comfort.”

Devin, which can complete the software tasks independently such as fixing errors and publishing applications, will be combined directly in IDE Windsurf.

Companies say this setting will give developers the ability to empty frequent work to multiple factors in parallel, while maintaining control of the main architectural decisions.

This perception is seen as the next step in building the human cooperative agent systems, and says IDE from Windsurf provides the lost facade layer to make the workflow of agents in a wide scale. Both companies have expressed confidence that users will benefit from a more flexible and tightly integrated development experience.

The Windsurf Blog post has also been expanded on product level plans, which confirms that current Windsurf features such as TAB and CASCADE-used in high-level manual coding-will remain integrated in IDE.

The developers will be able to set the work to a “team of Devins” while continuing to jump to complete or edit the complex parts themselves. “It was smoothly designed together in the same environment,” Wang wrote.

Unification in the midst of competition

The entity of joint perception is competing with Github Copilot directly, returning, founder and other IDE players from AI. The GEMINI platform from Google and the Microsoft Visual Studio symbol with “Agent mode” quickly expands in this space.

Devin topped the headlines earlier this year because of her ability to solve Getbib’s problems independently and complete comprehensive coding tasks. Merging this ability with a customized Windsurf environment – including features such as assignments, reviews and workflow for the institution – may create a product that contains fewer silos and automated more than competitors.

However, the ongoing talent war means a short -term competitive advantage. Google’s ability to employ the Windsurf-including and co-founder Douglas Chen indicates that even partial exits now come with millions of dollars in prices. Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have similar moves, and the main characters of startups such as Scale AI, ADEPT and Endecction are absorbed.

Despite the disposal of driving, Windsurf continues operations under the command of Wang.

“Most of the global Windsurf team will continue to build a Windsurf product in order to increase its impact on the institution,” he said in a statement.

Wang also confirmed that the team chose to realize other viable options, noting not only technical alignment but admiration: “They were the only team that we were afraid of.”

He pointed out that the perception revenue grows faster than Windsurf, and that 300 million dollars in financing and evaluating 4 billion dollars reflects a strong financial foot.

The company is expected to focus on organizations, IDE, hybrid/unified/unified publishing capabilities – the basic features that helped it in a crowded field.

For developers, the path now includes continuity and change: a product that is alive in perception, a founding team now in Deepmind and the landscapes that are rapidly combined around the talents of access to the model and engineering.