Yesterday, I saw a headline that an AI company called Cognition AI had raised $21 million in funding:
Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding assistant that, the startup says, can finish whole projects, raised $21M from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, and more (@ashleevance / Bloomberg)https://t.co/xbxGGDOhp1
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— Techmeme (@Techmeme) March 12, 2024
After seeing the headline of the paywalled Bloomberg article, I tried to find the company’s website to see what domain name they were using. Visiting CognitiveAI.com brought me to a GoDaddy default landing page. Cognition.AI forwarded me to Cognitive.AI, the domain name used by Andy Booth’s AI venture.
It looks like that just changed following a six figure sale shared by James Booth this morning. Cognition.AI was reportedly sold for $110,000:
https://t.co/k4LbG5u3Pr sold for $110,000
Congrats to the buyers and seller!#AI #Domains #Cognition pic.twitter.com/nfR9D7xM64
— Domain (@domain) March 13, 2024
As of this morning, Cognition.AI now forwards to Cognition-Labs.com, the website of the company that recently secured its funding. It remains to be seen if they will use Cognition.AI for its website or continue forwarding it to its hyphenated .com.
I just flipped CognitiveTech.com so . . . it’s anybody’s guess who is heading where in the AI space. In the long run I suspect .ai domains may prove themselves to be a bit like .mobi domains. 😉