Cognition is sponsoring the IOI this year! ecnerwala, tourist, skittles1412, and walnutwaldo20 will all be there. We'll have a booth in the Fun Zone after both contest days, and we'll generally be hanging around throughout the week. Come by and say hi, we'd love to meet you!
Competitive programming runs deep at Cognition. Many of our engineers competed in high school olympiads, and our founders (scott_wu, stevenkplus, and walnutwaldo20) are all IOI gold medalists. One fun fact: every IOI from 2006 through 2025 had at least one Cognition employee competing in it.
Today, Cognition is one of the largest AI startups in the world. We're building the future of software engineering and working with Fortune 500 companies to transform how they build software.
We hope to see you in Tashkent. Until then, here's a fun warmup problem :)








