Cognition is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
TechCrunch rounds up ~24 AI-agent startups that live in text messages (iMessage/SMS/WhatsApp/RCS), cataloging features, pricing, and scattered funding data across a crowded new consumer-AI category.
Cognition is reportedly in talks to raise a new round at a $40B valuation, months after a $1B raise at a $26B valuation.
Centralize, a stealth-era startup by ex-Slack/Meta engineers, raises $15M Series A led by NEA to build a 'deal GPS' for enterprise revenue teams, bringing total funding to $19M since 2023, with early traction and a live AI-driven relationship-mapping platform.
AGI will not emerge from fixed multimodal, scale-heavy systems; true general intelligence requires embodied world modeling and emergent cross-modality processing rather than patchwork modality fusion.
Cognition acquired Poke to bring a conversational UX to its coding agent Devin, betting that interaction style is becoming a critical competitive moat.
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