Cognition CRO Silas Alberti to guest lecture at Stanford as firm's valuation soars to $48B
silasalberti · x · 2026-10-28
Silas Alberti, Chief Research Officer at Cognition (the team behind Devin and Windsurf), is guest lecturing this week in the Stanford course 'The Modern Software Developer' (Thursday, STLC 111, 5:30-6:20pm). Cognition's valuation has jumped from $26B to $48B in four months. Alberti leads research on its coding models, including SWE-2, the first they trained with effort levels. Week 6's topic is agentic code review, from a team that trains frontier coding models.
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