Walden Yan

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Colossus 2026-05-12-3

The Wu Tapes

Cognition reports $445M ARR and Devin usage doubling every 8 weeks, raising at $25B as a third durable application-layer player above the Anthropic/OpenAI model duopoly. Wu calls the model-agnostic harness posture "Switzerland," and the architecture pattern matches what enterprise procurement teams already treat as a lock-in test. Whatever the next 18 months of frontier-model competition produces, the harness layer has started accruing durable enterprise revenue ahead of the model labs.