Peter Hebert

One year ago today, Cognition acquired Windsurf, capping off one of the crazier weekends in our company's history. The outline has been told many times: the first call on Friday evening, the rush through Saturday and Sunday to figure out the plan together, and then the signed agreement by Monday morning. On the Cognition side, we knew we had to move fast — Windsurf had millions of users, a brand developers loved, and a great team. We printed an LOI and headed to their offices on Saturday morning ready to sign on the spot. When we got in a room with Jeff and Graham, things clicked: they had built one of the best GTM orgs in Silicon Valley and needed engineering; we had the engineering org that needed GTM. They were building an IDE, we were building a cloud agent. Everything lined up. When we welcomed the team, we said “there's only one boat and we're all in it together.” Then we got to work. Three days after close, we shipped Wave 11: "Just Keep Shipping" – and that set the tone for everything to come. In the year since, we’ve launched our own models (including SWE1.7 just last week), Devin Review, Devin CLI, and unified everything into one brand with Devin Desktop. Along the way our team wrote 20M+ lines of code and grew revenue run rate from $73M to >$500M. Thankful for the last year and excited to keep building the future of software engineering together!

Excited to share that @sonatahealth is emerging from stealth today, and proud that @Lux_Capital is unveiling our investment. What impressed us from day one wasn’t just the product. It was the team. @SaganSchultz (physician + early product at @Linear) and David (Flatiron clinical genomics + early engineer at @tryramp) bring together medicine, product, and engineering in exactly the right way for this moment. SONATA is building preventive healthcare for the AI era: combining deep biological testing, longitudinal physician relationships, and clinical AI to help people stay healthier, longer. If you know me, you know I’m especially excited about what they’re building for women’s health, where longitudinal, context-aware care has the potential to be truly transformative. If you’re in NYC, SF, or LA and want to take a more proactive approach to your health, I highly recommend checking them out: sonata.health Congrats to the entire SONATA team. And a fun one to tag-team with my partner @lanjiang653 . 🚀

We showed @monogram_ai on stage for the first time at the Human In The Loop event a few weeks ago. If you only have 58 seconds, this video should give you a good idea of what we’re building.

UX is one of the most compelling areas for innovation now that we have robust AI models. How many concepts can be entirely rethought? It feels like the very definition of the user interface to software can be rebuilt from the ground up. So I am excited for Monogram:

Eren Bali has all of the attributes we seek in a Lux founder. Brilliant, resilient, clever and imaginative…and someone who will jump right back up after getting knocked down. Eren grew up in a remote Turkish village, won an IMO medal, made his way to Silicon Valley founding two large businesses (Udemy + Carbon Health) and is now back at it again to build a generational company with @edouardtabet + @akbal_m

We believe making AI easier to use will help it benefit more people, just as going from command-line to GUIs did for personal computers! Shout out to my cofounders @edouardtabet @akbal_m and our amazing investors @saurabhsgupta @peterjhebert @conviction @Soma_Capital @GradientVC Refract Ventures @e2mindset @maxitechinc @frst_vc @arthurmensch @logangreen @karimatiyeh @garrytan ...

Monogram is for everyday use cases, whether you’re looking for something to watch, finding a recipe, planning a trip, or anything else on your mind. You can download it on monogram.ai. This is an early preview version and there’s a lot to improve, but we wanted to make it available sooner. Please let us know what you think.

It's time to get out of stealth 👋 Today, we are launching @monogram_ai and announcing our $40m seed round led by DST and Lux Capital. Monogram is the first AI app that was built around a visual interface, from the ground up. We created a technology that generates an entire user interface on the fly, in just a few seconds. Ask anything, and instead of staring at a wall of text, you get an interactive visual response.

Intelligence should be abundant, not expensive.

Udemy and Carbon Health founder @erenbali explains @monogram_ai, a new kind of AI interface that replaces the standard text-based chatbot with interactive visual experiences. Here's what he's building:

We @togethercompute believe intelligence should be abundant, not expensive. Today we announced our Series C funding of $800m @ $8.3B valuation, to continue to build the world's most efficient platform for generative AI. Thanks @nikogallogly for telling our story in @nytimes! shorturl.at/SooOP

Huge milestone for @Lux_Capital portco @togethercompute — $800M in funding, pioneering AI OSS models at scale 🚀 Incredible team, best-in-class research & full-stack cloud: massive GPU fleet, kernel optimization, OSS training/inference engines 400T+ tokens/mo & counting 🔥

Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised $30M led by Lux Capital (@mattmartin128 / Semafor) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Open-source AI is booming, massively impactful for progress, competition, transparency & orders of magnitude less dangerous than closed-source frontier AI. Time to support it to the max!

Wirecutter review of @ImpulseLabs just dropped.

Where bits meet atoms in design, engineering and production... Lux family co @Nominal_io

The best companies are those that can attract the best people:

A huge moment for open source AI - as token usage skyrockets across orgs, so do concerns over cost & data/vendor lock-in & necessity of a multi-AI strategy Keep an eye on @Lux_Capital portfolio cos @huggingface @togethercompute @SakanaAILabs & more! 🚀

lesgo!

Going to cross 3M public models & 1M public datasets on @huggingface in a few days. Open-source AI is on fire!