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Cognition celebrates one year since acquiring Windsurf, highlighting shipping new features, significant ARR growth, and frontier AI research.
Jeff Wang recounts the chaotic 72 hours leading to Windsurf's acquisition and how it accelerated development of the Devin platform, unifying agentic IDE and cloud agent into a single product with new event-driven agent capabilities.
A developer gave up Google DeepMind acquisition equity and left voluntarily. He joined Codeium two years ago, developed the Windsurf product and trained the programming model SWE-1. The company was then acquired by DeepMind for $240 million, but he chose to resign.
A Chinese MIT student released WindsurfAPI, an open-source proxy that converts Windsurf's internal AI models (including Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5 series) into standard OpenAI and Anthropic compatible APIs for free, featuring account pooling and rate-limit isolation.
Windsurf AI IDE launches with one-click onboarding and a built-in agent panel called Cascade.