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Jay Grant

“Cognition | prev. black forest labs”

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Joined: Jun 2026
How they joined: Directly
Before Cognition: Black Forest LabsDirect Preference Optimization Curator
Status: Current

Overlapped before Cognition

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04

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LocationCambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Company sitecognition.ai

UniversityHarvard University, Babson College

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Posted on X on 2026-09-10, word for word: "cognition is about to eat the world".Sep 10, 2026cognition is about to eat the world
Posted on X on 2026-07-09 about Cognition's model training, word for word: "beautiful multi-cluster training of swe-1.7".Jul 9, 2026beautiful multi-cluster training of swe-1.7 https://t.co/1aO3v4HxfW
Public headline says "Cognition | prev. black forest labs".Nov 2026
Posted on X on 2026-10-28, word for word: "FrontierCode 2.0 is now part of the Intelligence Index".Oct 28, 2026FrontierCode 2.0 is now part of the Intelligence Index https://t.co/kTYKwFr7U8
His 2026-10-28 post on FrontierCode 2.0 joining the Intelligence Index refers to Cognition's FrontierCode coding benchmark/leaderboard, tracked by Artificial Analysis.Oct 28, 2026
Posted on X on 2026-08-07 about his former employer Black Forest Labs, word for word: "the @bfl_ai team is incredible. persistence & craft wins when others quit".Aug 7, 2026the @bfl_ai team is incredible. persistence & craft wins when others quit
Harvard Crimson (2026-04-24) identifies him as Jay Grant '27 and reports he joined Harvard's pro-AGI student club Singularity after reading founder Jain's manifesto, quoting him: "I'm surprised so few people came." He attributed campus disinterest to fear and skepticism.Apr 24, 2026Harvard Crimson: Jay Grant '27 joined Singularity after reading Jain's manifesto... "I'm surprised so few people came," he says.
He joined Cognition in June 2026, about a year after Cognition signed a definitive agreement (July 2025) to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE, including its IP, product, trademark and brand; he did not come over via the acquisition but joined the combined Devin + Windsurf company directly from Harvard.Jul 2025
jangranacher [at] college [dot] harvard [dot] edu; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning.Nov 2026
Posted on X on 2026-07-23, word for word: "mark my words: this will go down in history as one of the greatest moves in the race to build AGI".Jul 23, 2026mark my words: this will go down in history as one of the greatest moves in the race to build AGI
Reposted Cognition's call for the Inference-Time Compute Hackathon hosted by Cognition, Mercor, Etched and Anthropic (June 2026), and replied "sign up!" to promote it.Jun 11, 2026
Posted on X on 2026-05-27, word for word: "the cloud agents are taking over" (Devin is Cognition's cloud coding agent).May 27, 2026the cloud agents are taking over

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