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Coding Agent War Heats Up: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognition Battle for Devs
Anthropic's Claude Code hit $2.5B annualized revenue by February 2026, up 2.5x in a quarter. Cognition raised $1B at $26B valuation in May, with Devin ARR at $492M and enterprise clients like NASA. Model cadence now every six weeks, making platform lock-in the real battleground.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly flags that coding agents are becoming infrastructure, but the 'arms race' framing may overstate near-term shakeout—enterprise adoption cycles are slower than the hype suggests.
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