Cognition officially acquires Windsurf and plans Devin AI agent integration into IDE

Just a couple days after a rush of developments around Windsurf, including its leadership moving to Google and the collapse of OpenAI’s acquisition offer, there’s now another major update: Windsurf has officially been acquired by Cognition, the company behind the AI coding agent Devin.

The deal includes Windsurf’s intellectual property, its AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE), and all employees not hired by Google. Its original leadership and co-founders are not part of the acquisition, having joined Google through a separate 2.4 billion dollar reverse acquihire. Now, interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang and Cognition CEO Scott Wu plan to integrate Devin into Windsurf’s IDE, enabling developers to plan tasks, delegate code generation, and review pull requests in one place.

Windsurf’s team will continue developing the IDE while Cognition works on Devin, with full integration expected over time. The acquisition also restores Windsurf’s access to Anthropic’s Claude models, which had been revoked in June, resolving previous restrictions and reactivating API support. All remaining employees will benefit financially, with waived cliffs and fully accelerated vesting.