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Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

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502 points alazsengul | 2 comments | 14 Jul 25 18:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.697s | source
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makin ◴[14 Jul 25 18:21 UTC] No.44563488[source]▶
I was a bit confused as to what "Cognition" was, but they're the makers of Devin (edit: that just got added to the title, for reference), so that makes sense. Just buying the competition, the only surprise is they had more money to spend than the big ones.
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brentm ◴[14 Jul 25 18:24 UTC] No.44563540[source]▶
Well Google did also just pay $2.5B to license Windsurf in perpetuity. Cognition is probably spending a lot less than that for just whatever it left after that type of a deal. Remaining team members, etc.
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1. xnx ◴[14 Jul 25 18:45 UTC] No.44563809[source]▶
> Google did also just pay $2.5B to license Windsurf in perpetuity

Could there have been a clause that made this invalid in case of acquisition?

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2. wmf ◴[14 Jul 25 20:26 UTC] No.44564869[source]▶
IANAL but you'd have to be pretty dumb to include that clause.