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⏭️ Forward Deployed: Voice AI on what works in 2026
- ▶ 1:47 unnamed speaker So we brought on companies like Factory, Cognition, Composio, Soundgrep.
Podcast Crossover: AIE, AGI, frontier lab strategy with @matthew_berman and @swyxtv
- ▶ 23:54 Shawn Wang But the Sierras of the world, the Cognitions of the world, the Cursors of the world, the Decagons and, um, Harvey's, these are all agent labs for their field. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:16 Matthew Berman So the cursors, the cognitions of the factories of the world are, isn't this kind of like prime time for them?
The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ▶ 8:45 unnamed speaker Um, even in your, like, latest blog post, like even, even in the Series C, the, the customers that you mentioned here, uh, the Cognitions, Decagons, Ramps, and whatnot, they're, they're innovating with you, right?
- ▶ 9:09 unnamed speaker So my first week at Cognition, I walked in, there was someone wearing a moto shirt. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:25 unnamed speaker I, I actually, I, I, like, sort of semi-sounded the alarm and cognition.
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
- ▶ 6:18 Shawn Wang My last in AIE Europe, I talked about if I'm using Devon from LH Work, Town Assistant, even a little bit of Victor as well.
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 3:00 Ronak Malde Uh, you might have seen now there's like later iterations, like suite 1.5 and suite two, uh, Cognition's working on. 3 times in the scene
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 1:34 unnamed speaker Alright, we're in the studio with Walden Yen, co-founder of Condition, CPO.
- ▶ 10:28 Walden Yan Um, but aside from the product, and I, I want to go into the agents and, and the tuning of the intelligence part later, but I think a big part of what we do at Cognition as well is to just make sure that your company learns and uses and…
- ▶ 16:07 Walden Yan So internally at Cognition, we call this repo setup. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:11 unnamed speaker Overstating it, and maybe for cognition, you know, there's like C-sharp and Java and what have you, but like, for like, new greenfield apps, do you feel that, do you get that sense?
- ▶ 1:00:17 unnamed speaker Um, and then, and Devin has, or Condition has just done it.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 20:04 Ivan Burazin So like a background agents, a cognition, a lovable, like all these things are Harvey.
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 15:52 Shawn Wang Um, and I, you know, obviously through, through cognition and AIE, I see a bunch of stuff.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 49:27 Shawn Wang And so, I mean, Cognition does this, Corsair does this, where you, you just have to like, if your tool is slightly different, um, either force your tool to be like the tool that they train for, or like undo their training for their tool…
- ▶ 1:06:44 Kyle Kranen You make a JROP and you make like, I feel like there's something I would love to see from cognition or someone else be like, come bring your agent, like drop it in.
Why Every Agent Needs a Box — Aaron Levie, Box
- ▶ 49:25 Shawn Wang Uh, my, I'm actually like, uh, you know, obviously I spend so many time at cognition, which, uh, you, you know very well, and they've had a lot of success with deep wiki.
Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
- ▶ 21:39 Alessio Fanelli What's the cognition internal tracking? 3 times in the scene
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 21:25 Dylan Patel That does not mean, you know, a lot of people use Cloud Code without having Cloud commit for them, so you're, like, you're talking about, like, or, and then they use Codex, they use Cognition, they use, you know, or sorry, Devon, they use…
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 44:40 Shawn Wang I had to explain it to people at Cognition.
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- ▶ 58:09 unnamed speaker They are like, yeah, okay, whatever, especially in the agent labs, like cognition cursor, they're taking the open source models from, from whoever, and then adding, let's call it pre-trained scale RL on top of it.
[State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
[State of Evals] LMArena's $1.7B Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena
- ▶ 22:14 Shawn Wang Like, let's say, I'm at Cognition. 3 times in the scene
[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
- ▶ 23:54 unnamed speaker They're, they're automating, yeah, research, you guys have a, your own benchmark on, on TaperBench, and that's the one area that, um, like, for example, at Cognition, we've just decided to not do, because it's so hard.
[State of AI Startups] Memory/Learning, RL Envs & DBT-Fivetran — Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify
- ▶ 19:51 Sarah Catanzaro Uh, or, you know, cloud code or cognition or, or, uh, you know, whatever else.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 47:09 Shawn Wang Tasks are really interesting, and we basically have to invent this, um, when we did this at, um, did like the Devon API, uh, at Cognition, and I think that's also like, uh, an interesting reinvention of, of like, well, everyone is going to…
AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- ▶ 28:30 Joubin Mirzadegan That team, I guess, is now at Cognition. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:41 Joubin Mirzadegan Or cognition or windsurf, like magic.
- ▶ 56:50 Joubin Mirzadegan If you're a new rep at glean or a new rapid cognition, and you want to like put one of these deals together, you're like calling deals desk and finance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:12 Shawn Wang Cognition has an engineering sort of basement and I've advocated pumping oxygen into there because that is like a very valuable thing to have.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 34:52 Shawn Wang This only, only the kind of pricing you care about if you're a solo developer, but once you're in a large scale, like you guys, uh, and it's also something I learned about at Cognition, you should actually cost care about price per… 2 times in the scene
The Great Evals Debate — Ankur Goyal & Malte Ubl
- ▶ 5:22 Malte Ubl Just yesterday, I think we saw both Cognition, congrats, SWIX, and, and Cursor to ship RL fine tunes of unnamed open source models. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:23 Shawn Wang I'm interested in exploring it with cognition.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 36:41 unnamed speaker You know, it's just not super clear to me where Incognition, in fact, we have an internal one that was built basically the same time as 2 times in the scene
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 32:24 Shawn Wang And, uh, there's, we've, we've talked to Bolt and Lovable, but then also like, oh, put Cognition and Courser in there as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:50 Shawn Wang And I think like something that cognition is very interested about is fast agents or
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 10:59 unnamed speaker And because, you know, I've, I, my, from my seat at Cognition, I can also see this where 3 times in the scene
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- ▶ 12:43 unnamed speaker Well, I, I haven't abandoned it completely because one of the things that we were doing, I don't know if you saw the Cognition Suite grep, uh, work was basically using semant, a semantic searcher and chunks in, in, with embeddings as a…
- ▶ 38:32 unnamed speaker Uh, so like, um, you know, obviously I, I, I have some bias here because, uh, cognition has from the start believed in interactive planning where like you kick off a thing, you get some feedback, then you're like, you're like, oh, that's…
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker The Cognition Company Offsite, yeah.
- ▶ 15:15 unnamed speaker No, like not only do I work at Cognition and Winsurf, and then I also, you know, am like organizing this AIE code thing, which, uh, you know, you're definitely invited to, but like, it's like, yeah, everyone's launching a terminal and… 2 times in the scene
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 32:44 unnamed speaker Uh, one of the things that I was thinking about when I was looking at it was like, okay, this is very tech space, but like, you know, something that I'm seeing that, uh, you know, sitting at cognition, I'm seeing is that computer use is…
⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, founder of Kernel Labs, and I'm joined by Swix from Cognition. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
- ▶ 0:24 unnamed speaker And also more recently, I joined Cognition, which is a big customer and friend of Cerebrus.
- ▶ 7:58 Andrew Feldman So we weren't surprised every ounce of our design of our architecture was, was built to solve this particular problem and enable the type of speed that, that your guys at Cognition have benefited from.
- ▶ 14:10 Andrew Feldman Many of our customers, including Cognition, benefit from us via our cloud offering, and so it's a sort of a soup to nuts solution. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 17:42 Mike Krieger Either they have like a super complex, you know, agentic coding harness like cognition does, or they have a really tricky legal set of problems, um, or they're using it for, um, medical analysis, all these different pieces and,
- ▶ 18:19 unnamed speaker Uh, yeah, um, uh, cognition kind of did, uh, extra work on this, so usually that's what, that's all that cognition does. 4 times in the scene
Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- ▶ 9:26 Lance Martin Now, Cognition had a really nice blog post talking about this as well, and they mentioned you can really spend a lot of time on summarization, so I don't want to trivialize it, but at least my experience has been it's worked quite… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Lance Martin So cognition argues, which actually I think is a very reasonable argument, they argue don't do sub agents because each sub agent implicitly makes decisions. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:13 Shawn Wang and I use, uh, quite a bit is, uh, actually the, uh, deep wiki from Cognition.
- ▶ 29:22 Lance Martin And cognition kind of hits this too.
- ▶ 40:17 Lance Martin It actually echoes some of Walton Dan's points from cognition.
- ▶ 53:42 unnamed speaker Cursor and windsurf are being, are better than VS code for like AI native thing, just because they didn't have to deal with removing things and why cognition is like, you know,
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 44:51 Shawn Wang I think Windsurf as a, as a product is going to stick around, and people who really like Windsurf, I mean, I was a Windsurf user for a long time, um, we are going to keep using it because it fills a need, and like, obviously, Cognition…
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 0:24 Shawn Wang One week later, Cognition acquired the rest of Windsurf for what has been estimated to be three hundred million dollars in stock. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:42 Scott Wu Hey, I'm Scott from Cognition AI, and today I'm really excited to introduce you to Devin, the first AI software engineer.
- ▶ 1:12:14 Scott Wu I'm Scott from Cognition AI, and I'm gonna tell you guys a little bit about, um, you know, the, the, the early makings of Devon.
- ▶ 3:34:37 Shawn Wang Uh, this is a very special episode because we have the, I guess, until recently, uh, the C, the separate CEOs of Cognition and Windsurf, Scott Wu and Jeff Wang. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47:31 Shawn Wang And then I think the other, the other thing is that we're, what we're seeing is, is I think they're setting up, they're setting up to be an epic clash between Cursor and Cognition. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:50:41 Shawn Wang but, uh, the, the employees got, uh, had, had all the IP and, and Cognition's buying all the IP. 3 times in the scene
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 46:54 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan There was an interesting article from the cognition labs about, you know, multi-agent orchestration and getting right into it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:12 Shawn Wang So, the instantiations of this now, I would say, are background agents is, it would be codecs, for example, like, not spinning up, you know, one PR per minute, and, or Devin, or Cognition.
⚡️Anthropic vs Cognition on Multi-Agents: A Breakdown with Dylan Davis
- ▶ 1:00 Shawn Wang So I put out a call on SmallAI for, um, you know, this comparison thing between Cognition and Anthropic on their multi-agents articles, and you answered it with, like, I think the best answer, which was, you made your own video, like,…
- ▶ 1:39 Dylan Davis I mean, I, I guess the, the, and you probably have a better insight into this, but there's, I guess some discussion around the fact that both of these blog posts and context for the viewers or listeners is, uh, anthropic and both cognition… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 Dylan Davis And this is a chart from Cognition's blog that walks through a basic flow or basic architecture of what a single agent could look like. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Dylan Davis So cognition, cognition's blog post was basically the exact opposite, stating that multi-agent architectures aren't necessarily that fruitful. 4 times in the scene
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
⚡️Open Questions in Agentic RL — Will Brown (Prime Intellect)
- ▶ 10:55 Will Brown Where you need to, like, the recent paper, blog post, like, two days ago from, uh, Cognition for their, like, kernel bench AI does this in kind of, like, a simple form where each step is essentially, like, a final answer, but they allow it…
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 3:22 Sid Bendre Um, we raised from people like Cal Henderson, the co-founder of Slack, Mary Zhang, the ex CTO of Tinder and Russell Kaplan, who's the current president of Cognition Labs.
The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- ▶ 8:21 Pranav Reddy So cloud launched computer use, OpenAI launched code execution inside of Canvas yesterday, and then I think Devon just announced that they, you can all try it for 500 dollars a month, um, which is pretty remarkable. 2 times in the scene
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 18:36 Shawn Wang Cognition DevIn and a bunch of other sort of agent type startups, they all use Nullify to deploy because of this one feature.
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 40:17 Romain Huet And that's also what, like, Devon from Cognition can use in their own software engineer agents.
- ▶ 1:10:33 Alessio Fanelli Uh, as a founder, so they also feature a cognition on, on stage, talk about that.
- ▶ 1:39:54 Kevin Weil You've got groups like Cognition doing amazing things, and coding, uh, like Harvey and Case Text,
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 45:08 Harrison Chase I think some of the most interesting stuff that I saw here was also related to coding with, with Devin from Cognition, and they had the three or four different panels where you had like the chat, the browser, the terminal, and I guess the…
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 1:13:30 unnamed speaker I'm calling attention to it because I think that cognition burning like rumors is, I don't know nothing from Scott.