Cognition Acquires Poke to Enhance AI Assistant Personality and Collaboration

Cognition acquired Poke, an AI assistant with a conversational personality, to enhance its coding platform Devin by integrating human-like interactions. The move aims to make AI collaborators more relatable and efficient, leveraging Poke's engagement model and Cognition's infrastructure.

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

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