🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)

This is a recap episode that ends with a short fresh interview on the future of Windsurf + Cognition with Jeff Wang and Scott Wu at the end.

As the story of Windsurf as an independent company has come to a dramatic close with Google and Cognition, we’re taking this opportunity to look back at our coverage of Windsurf over the last 3 years. Here’s a brief timeline with related links.

• Jun 2021 - Exafunction founded

• Oct 2022 - Codeium pivot https://windsurf.com/blog/beta-launch-announcement

• Dec 2022 - “Copilot for X” https://www.latent.space/p/what-building-copilot-for-x-really

• Mar 2023 - Codeium first episode, LS episode 2 https://www.latent.space/p/varun-mohan

• July 2023 - “How to Make AI UX Your Moat" ****https://www.latent.space/p/ai-ux-moat

• Mar 2024 - Cognition Devin launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjHtjT7GO1c

• Jun 2024 - Scott @ AI Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7NWjoD_OuY

• Jun 2024 - Kevin @ AI Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuZXbinJ4Uc

• Nov 2024 - “Enterprise Infra Native” https://www.latent.space/p/enterprise

• Nov 2024 - Windsurf launch, LS Episode https://www.latent.space/p/windsurf

• Mar 2025 - Kevin Hou @ AI Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNNvWq6dKo

• Jun 2025 - Scott @ AI Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI83buT_23o

• Jun 2025 - Kevin Hou @ AI Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVuNPL5QO8Q

• Jul 2025 - Jeff + Scott, CogSurf Episode ← new one, released here.

We hope this serves as food for thought for students of history, and a reintroduction to the Latent Space extended universe and backlog, for those of you who are new. Welcome!

Timestamps

[00:02:07] Mar 2024 Codeium @ LS
[00:52:36] Mar 2024 Devin Launch Video
[00:54:28] Jun 2024 Codeium @ AIE SF
[01:12:14] Jun 2024 Cognition @ AIE SF
[01:30:53] Nov 2024 Windsurf Launch Video
[01:37:16] Nov 2024 Windsurf Launch @ LS
[02:43:10] Feb 2025 Windsurf @ AIE NYC
[03:03:27] Jun 2025 Cognition @ AIE SF
[03:18:50] June 2025 Windsurf @ AIE SF
[03:34:23] July 2025 - Cognition + Windsurf

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Mar 2024 Codeium @ LS
• 00:52:36 Mar 2024 Devin Launch Video
• 00:54:28 Jun 2024 Codeium @ AIE SF
• 01:12:14 Jun 2024 Cognition @ AIE SF
• 01:30:53 Nov 2024 Windsurf Launch Video
• 01:37:16 Nov 2024 Windsurf Launch @ LS
• 02:43:10 Feb 2025 Windsurf @ AIE NYC
• 03:03:27 Jun 2025 Cognition @ AIE SF
• 03:18:50 June 2025 Windsurf @ AIE SF
• 03:34:23 July 2025 - Cognition + Windsurf