Mir Arshad Ali Talpur

For GenAI, we can tolerate some level of probabilistic behavior because there's usually a human in the loop and an opportunity to correct mistakes. But when AI is taking actions autonomously through agents, even a 0.1% error rate can create significant friction. How are you solving this reliability problem in your workflows?

From Jeff Wang, Prev. Windsurf CEO now President, New Enterprise at Cognition/Devin (who just raised $1B):

Today we are saying goodbye to Windsurf

and we are transforming it to Devin Desktop

Windsurf has been an absolutely amazing experience for me and the team. Though it has been rocky at times, we have seen every phase of AI coding and we want to keep embracing where things are going. That means we need to once again reorient ourselves towards a more focused goal and remove the Windsurf branding.

Believe it or not, the Windsurf brand has been around less than a year and a half, and before that, the previous name Codeium was only around a similar timeframe as well. I ve actually had to change my email every year all the way to the eventual acquisition to Cognition. In AI, most products only have a 1 year lifespan before you need to drastically change it to the next.

Devin now encompasses all our form factors, whether it s the cloud agent, the agent command center (with IDE), CLI, review, or our other products. This way we can really focus our efforts around one name. We are doubling down on our neutrality and making Devin Desktop compatible with other agents via ACP. We may be the only Switzerland of AI left and we embrace this role.

As for me, I ll be transitioning from CEO of Windsurf to Cognition s President of New Enterprise, helping open new regions and verticals, accelerating velocity, and filling in gaps as usual.

The story of Windsurf doesn t end here, it continues on as part of Devin s journey.

I still rock Windsurf and love it, despite all the handwringing about pricing.

That's a lot of AGI, with some substantial firepower:

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

From Coatue, who lead the round:

...what s changed since three months ago (the last round was only three months ago, believe it or not)?

Three things:

1. We ve seen the shift from co-pilots that help make us more efficient to agents actually doing long-form work tasks on our behalf. This has meant an explosion in both productivity and ROI for customers.

2. Anthropic introduced Mythos Preview, a whole new model class that demonstrates a step change in intelligence level as seen in the METR chart below. It not only shows dramatic improvement to coding and long-running agents, it is also defining a new frontier for security.

3. And finally > use cases spreading from coding to everything else.