Organization
Cognition
Cognition is a developer platform company and AI model developer headquartered in San Francisco, California12. No open models or tools from Cognition are in this catalog yet; its documented products are listed below.
Documented roles: Developer platform · Model developer
Cognition makes Devin, an AI software engineering agent that runs in the cloud or on a developer's machine, together with Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) and Devin CLI. It also develops SWE-series coding models that are offered in these products.348
Status: In July 2025 Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand, and team. In June 2026 it introduced Devin Desktop as the next generation of Windsurf; the Devin Desktop page calls it the new name for Windsurf, and Cognition's platform terms refer to "Devin Desktop (fka Windsurf)" and say that for users who enrolled under Exafunction, Inc., the provider is Exafunction, Inc. unless they have been notified that their license was assigned to Cognition AI, Inc.5641
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Key facts
- Legal name
- Cognition AI, Inc.1
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Unknown
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Agents
What is and isn’t public
Devin, Devin Desktop, and Devin CLI are commercial products, and Cognition's SWE models are offered inside them; the SWE-2 announcement does not mention a weights release. Cognition's verified Hugging Face account lists one public model, Kevin-32B, a CUDA-kernel-writing model fine-tuned from Qwen's QwQ-32B; its license was not confirmed for this record.38910
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devin (external site: devin.ai) | Developer tool | Autonomous software engineering agent used through a web app after sign-up, which runs in the cloud or on the user's machine and works toward mergeable pull requests.3 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) (external site: devin.ai) | Developer tool | Downloadable IDE for managing local and cloud coding agents; it replaced Windsurf through an automatic update that keeps existing plans, settings, and extensions.46 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Devin CLI (external site: cognition.com) | Developer tool | Local command-line coding agent installed with a shell script, which can hand a session off to a cloud agent.7 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
No artifact records in this catalog list Cognition. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.
Notable documented facts
- Cognition says its SWE-2 coding model (September 2026) is post-trained from Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that had already been trained for agentic coding. SWE-2 launched in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, with a rollout to Devin on the web.8
In the news
Cognition releases SWE-2, a coding model post-trained from Kimi K3, in Devin
Cognition introduced SWE-2 on September 10, 2026. The announcement says SWE-2 is post-trained from Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model, and that it is available in Devin, starting with Devin Desktop and the CLI, with a rollout to Devin Web and Fusion. The post does not say that the model's weights are published. USASI has not tested this model.
The Dioxus team joins Cognition, which says it will keep supporting Dioxus open source work
Cognition announced on September 10, 2026 that Jonathan Kelley and the Dioxus team are joining Cognition; the post does not describe deal terms or call it an acquisition. Cognition says it will continue to support Dioxus' open source work and plans to keep supporting Dioxus, Blitz, Taffy, and Subsecond, with more investment in Dioxus-Native and Blitz. The post says the team will also work on Devin's virtual machine, computer-use skills, and testing capabilities.
Cognition signs a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Energy to join the Genesis Mission
Cognition said on July 22, 2026 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to join the Genesis Mission, which the post describes as launched by executive order in November 2025. According to the post, Cognition will contribute alongside DOE and the national laboratories in four areas: software and data security, modernizing legacy scientific code, expanding scientific workforce capacity, and cloud modernization. The post does not give further terms of the memorandum.
What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Cognition's platform terms of service (updated June 30, 2026) name Cognition AI, Inc. with an address at 550 Third Street, San Francisco, California, and its careers page describes a San Francisco office where most roles are listed. No official page reviewed uses the word headquarters.12
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USASI. (2026, October 1). Cognition. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/cognition/
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