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Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance”

Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts …

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  • @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky
    Windsurf's co-founders really screwed over their people.  They got $2.4bn - half of which went to investors - to go to Google, sold the IP and staff to Cognition, who are now laying them off or offering buyouts.  Layoffs from an AI company are a pale horse unto themselves [embedd…
  • @theinformation @theinformation on x
    AI coding startup Cognition is offering voluntary buyouts to newly acquired Windsurf employees, with a nine-month salary as compensation. Read more: https://www.theinformation.com/ ... #AICoding
  • @lauramandaro Laura Mandaro on x
    Latest twist in the Windsurf saga (the coding startup that was going to sell to OpenAI, whose founders then jumped to Google, leaving rest of staff to get bought by rival Cognition): buyouts or buckle up.. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]