Windsurf
An agentic code editor, now renamed Devin Desktop after a contested 2025 sale.
By Windsurf · owned by Cognition · launched unknown · last checked 2026-11-01
Why 3: its agent, Cascade, edited code and ran commands in the editor as you worked, rather than completing whole tasks unattended in its own environment.
What it does. Windsurf was an AI code editor whose agent, Cascade, edited code and ran commands. In 2025 OpenAI's reported $3 billion deal to buy it lapsed; Google then paid about $2.4 billion to license its technology and hire its chief executive, Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and some researchers; and on 14 July 2025 Cognition agreed to buy the rest, including the product, brand and remaining staff. On 2 June 2026 Cognition renamed it Devin Desktop and replaced Cascade with Devin Local; legacy Cascade ran until 1 July 2026.
Where it falls short. As a separate product it no longer exists; its users are now on Cognition's roadmap. Google's deal took the founders and some researchers but left most of the roughly 250-person team behind.
What it can do
Incidents
- None logged.
Closest fiction
Pantheon — Three companies fought over one team. The founders went one way and the code another.
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History
- 2026-11-01 Added to the index.
Sources
- Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf TechCrunch, 2025-07-14
- Cognition's acquisition of Windsurf Cognition, 2025-07-14
- Windsurf is now Devin Desktop Cognition, 2026-06-02
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