Yuting D.
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Yuting D.
@maybeTuring
Building @SantoriLabs. Ex-GM@scale_AI, ex-@Google Sustainable founding, Human-ai-interaction
The @browsercompany just signed a merger agreement to be acquired. We will remain independent. Our focus is Dia. I’ve written and rewritten this post more times than I’d like to admit, but what I keep coming back to is simple: the work continues, and we’re grateful for this moment. The work continues because when I stop by the coffee shop near our office, nobody is using Dia yet. Our “internet computer” vision hasn’t been realized. Dia hasn’t yet changed how you work on a Tuesday morning. This deal is about giving us the resources, distribution, and monetization muscle to get there. At the same time, it feels disingenuous not to pause and briefly celebrate this milestone. It reflects our team’s craftsmanship and relentlessness, the support of our coaches, board members, and advisors, and the incredible effort from our deal team: Ryan Purcell from Gunderson, Nancy Peretsman and Leah Schwartz from Allen & Co., and Clare, Abby, Eissra, Rebecca, Cory, Nash, and Hursh from The Browser Company. Most of all, we’re grateful for what this means for Dia. It means we can hire faster, ship faster, and bring Dia to more people. We can now invest in cross-platform support and secure syncing, train custom AI models designed specifically for Dia, and turn ambitious ideas about “computer use” and “memory” into reality. To everyone who’s filed a bug, sent feedback, or shared a kind word: thank you. We haven’t always gotten it right, but we’ve always cared deeply. That will never change. Dia isn’t going anywhere. We’ll be here for the long haul, with the same team just a new partner helping us push further. We’ll take a breath this weekend, and then get back to work. Big launch next month. In the meantime...
Seeing lots of questions like: wait, I thought Windsurf was already acquired? What is Cognition buying? Let me explain. Windsurf the company is an *extraordinary* asset. It was missing its founders and research team, but it has a beloved product, valuable IP, an incredible business ($82M ARR with enterprise growth doubling quarter-over-quarter), known brand, and most importantly: a world-class team in every function—GTM, enterprise engineering, and much more. With today’s news, we’re adding all that firepower to Cognition to deliver the most complete AI coding solution in the market. And we’re doing so in a way that treats the team with the value and respect that they deserve. And here’s what’s also ours: - all improvements we build on top of Windsurf’s IP from here - all Windsurf training data - all Windsurf trademark and brand assets The meme over the weekend was “Is Windsurf now an empty shell?” The opposite is true, and we’re going to be even stronger together. Today is a huge win for Windsurf and Devin customers everywhere.
Mercor (@mercor_ai) is now working with 6 out of the Magnificent 7, all of the top 5 AI labs, and most of the top application layer companies. One trend is common across every customer: we are entering The Era of Evals. RL is becoming so effective that models will be able to saturate any evaluation. This means that the primary barrier to applying agents to the entire economy is building evals for everything. This will be one of the largest buildouts we have ever seen with enterprises pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into evals for every workflow we want agents to automate. We're quickly defining a new class of work and hiring across nearly every domain: software engineers, consultants, bankers, lawyer, doctors, gamers, and many more.
My note to Scale employees today—
spending everything on Alexandr Wang
@pitdesi a new challenger has appeared