@cognition_labs: Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf's world-class people, whom we're privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring [video]Russell Kaplan / @russelljkaplan: Seeing lots of questions like: wait, I thought Windsurf was already acquired? What is Cognition buying? Let me explain. Windsurf the company is an *extraordinary* asset. It was missing its founders and research team, but it has a beloved product, valuable IP, an incredibleGergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz: Cognition buying Windsurf (after Google hired the core team) is interesting: Cognition has no traction with developers (they faked their launch demo & positioning was about replacing devs w an “AI engineer") but has money in the bank & can prob raise more Windsurf the oppositeDerrick Reimer / @derrickreimer: It's crazy that Windsurf has $82mm ARR when nobody actually uses it! /sDave Friedman / @friedmandave: Seems like these companies did the right thing for Windsurf's non-key employees. Kudos to all involved. Except of course the antitrust people.Sean Grove / @sgrove: AI CEO is now a legit speedrun category - congrats to @jeffwsurfon on narrowly beating out the previous WR held by @eshear! https://x.com/... => https://x.com/...Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: Very important for the ecosystem that *everybody* get to participate in the upside of events like this. Happily, this news cycle provided the perfect opportunity for poasters across all social strata to bank precious engagement via spicy (albeit uninformed) tweets.Sally Shin / @sallyshin: In times of chaos, transparency is paramount. It builds loyalty. This isn't just for crisis mode, it's how you build family in the trenches. Great comms by @ScottWu46, well done by the @cognition_labs team.Sally Shin / @sallyshin: In times of chaos, transparency is paramount. It builds loyalty. This isn't just for crisis mode, it's how you build family in the trenches. Well done by the @cognition_labs team.Walden / @walden_yan: The last 72 hours have been wild. The next month will be even crazier as we combine & expand on the amazing products from our two teamsJeff Wang / @jeffwsurf: The last 72 hours have been the wildest rollercoaster ride of my career. I'm beyond thrilled to share that @windsurf_ai is joining forces with @cognition_labs, the legendary team behind Devin, to reinvent the future of software development. Windsurf built the leading in-IDERussell Kaplan / @russelljkaplan: Incredibly excited to share that Cognition is acquiring Windsurf. What an insane weekend - from first call after 5pm on Friday to a signed definitive agreement this morning. There's a lot to build!Rat King / @mikeisaac: just fyi, we thread the needle in our story from Friday but Google hired the founders and licensed the tech from windsurf in a non exclusive license, so cognition acquisition means windsurf tech goes to cognition See here for more https://www.nytimes.com/...Marvin von Hagen / @marvinvonhagen: google, windsurf, cognition everyone involved headquartered around palo alto 🌞Geoffrey Woo / @geoffreywoo: Excellent move. Congrats @ScottWu46 and the @cognition_labs team for relentless execution towards making software available to everyone. @antifundvc proud to be an early investor!Rat King / @mikeisaac: NEWS: Cognition buys Windsurf in yet another AI deal, swooping in after Google bought Windsurf's founders and tech while leaving the rest of company behind windsurf employees will all participate financially, receiving accelerated vested shares https://www.nytimes.com/...Packy McCormick / @packym: Cognition is playing chess and/or poker. [image]@nizzyabi: i've said it and i'll say it again tech twitter is the greatest reality tv show in the world you can't miss a day lmaoJohn Luttig / @absoluttig: congrats to @ScottWu46 and team on doing what's right for the employees, protecting the social contract, and making a whole greater than the sum of partsZak Kukoff / @zck: Really good and important outcome to restore tech's social contract. From the post: - 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal - 100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date - 100% of Windsurf employees willSheel Mohnot / @pitdesi: This is a great move for all parties and likely why we didn't hear from Windsurf over the weekend we will probably see more stub company acquisitions. Curious how the economics look for this@windsurf_ai: The show goes on! Announcing the real next chapter of Windsurf - we're joining forces with @cognition_labs , the creators of Devin, to reinvent AI coding. Let's surf.Delian / @zebulgar: In a world of fake acquisitions by the Mag 7 that break the fundamental social contract of the Valley & are lame as fuck Cognition is doing the RIGHT & SMART thing by taking over Windsurf, treating the employees right AND now you have the best AI-coding team all in one place!!Silas Alberti / @silasalberti: Devin + Windsurf are stronger together! At Cognition we've been focused on building the best cloud agent - but the IDE was always a missing piece. The Windsurf team built the first agentic IDE & scaled it to hundreds of thousands of users - but wanted to add a cloud agent.Scott Wu / @scottwu46: It's a privilege to welcome Windsurf to Cognition. Here are more details in the note I sent to our Cognition team this morning: Team, As discussed during our all-hands, we are acquiring Windsurf. We have now signed a definitive agreement and we couldn't be more excited. Here's, NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B More: SiliconANGLE, Network World, FinSMEs, Unite.AI, CRN, and VC News Daily, For many of the companies that are part of that shift, including hyperscaler CoreWeave, a key enabler has been NetBox Labs. Founded as a commercial steward of the open-source NetBox project, NetBox Labs develops a platform for network infrastructure management, essentially replacing the spreadsheets and manual processes that many organizations .