Rumor: Cognition raising at a $40B valuation while "not for sale"
XFreeze · x · 2026-08-20
A poster argued a week ago that Elon Musk should acquire Cognition (the AI coding company behind Windsurf), ending with "imagine what they could do with Colossus compute." Per his tracking, Cognition employees and investors amplified the piece the most while insisting "we're not for sale" — from which he says he learned the company is mid-raise at a $40 billion valuation. Unverified individual claim.
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