Cognition Acquires Poke, Completes Three Acquisitions in Three Days

According to Beating Monitor, AI programming company Cognition has acquired The Interaction Company, the developer of the personal AI agent Poke. Poke operates directly within SMS, proactively reminding and following up on tasks, and helping users manage their schedules. The product will continue operating and will later integrate with Cognition’s models and infrastructure. Over the past three months, Poke has processed over 100 million messages and serves hundreds of thousands of users. It is also the first third-party AI agent approved to integrate with Apple’s Messages for Business, allowing users to interact with it directly within iMessage. This is Cognition’s second acquisition in three days. On July 20, the company acquired the TierZero team, which specializes in post-deployment automation for software, including early fault detection, incident response, and continuous system stability maintenance. These capabilities will be integrated into Devin to reduce the time engineers spend handling incidents. Last year, Cognition also acquired the AI coding tool Windsurf. With these three consecutive acquisitions, its product scope has expanded from code writing and IDEs to software operations and personal daily AI agents.