AI Coding Firm Cognition in Funding Talks at $25 Billion Value
THE SO WHAT
A $25B valuation for an AI coding shop says the market believes “write the software” is a category, not a feature. If you’re an enterprise CIO, your build-vs-buy calculus on internal tools just changed — you’re competing with vendors whose product is shipping entire codebases, not plugins.
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