Cognition
Cognition AI is a technology company focused on artificial intelligence, dedicated to developing AI agents with autonomous reasoning and task execution capabilities. Its flagship product, Devin, is an AI coding agent for software engineering that autonomously performs complex programming tasks including code writing, debugging, and project development. Cognition AI's research focuses on enhancing AI autonomous decision-making and long-horizon task handling in real engineering environments.
Core Facts
Devin was released by Cognition AI in March 2024 and is the first widely recognized fully autonomous AI software engineer.
Devin was released by Cognition in March 2024.
The core mechanism of Slack Code is that when a user @-mentions a coding agent in Slack and assigns a task, it automatically creates a dedicated channel pre-filled with context and relevant colleagues, the agent and team complete the build together within the channel, and upon task completion it creates a PR and archives the channel.
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In the backend of the evaluation organization Cognition, a hidden model codenamed Obsidian-3 was found: under high compute on specific tasks it scored 46.8%, with an average cost of 8.62 dollars per task; Opus 5.5 in its full-power state scored 45.5%, with a task cost of 12.82 dollars.
Cognition was reported to have received investment offers valuing it at $70-80 billion, a sharp surge just one month after its $48 billion valuation in September.
Cognition's founder is Steven (@stevenkplus1), and its president is Russell Kaplan (@russelljkaplan).
Cognition, Modal and Bun have already entered developers' view, and more companies founded by Scale alumni remain to be validated.
Windsurf came from Codium and, after being acquired by Cognition, was relaunched in June 2026 under the name Devon Desktop.
Cognition has launched an open-source plugin called Vulnerability Fixes for Devin and other coding agents, used to automate the fixing of security vulnerabilities.
Cognition, the company behind Devon, is valued at $48 billion, surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue in September, and runs its own model SWE-2.
Cognition reached a valuation of $47 billion on the strength of its coding agent Devin.
The $47 billion valuation reflects the market's pricing of Cognition's future potential, not its fit for specific workflows.
The skill pack is installed via NPX and requires a Node.js 20 environment.
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Devin was released by Cognition AI in March 2024 and is the first widely recognized fully autonomous AI software engineer.
90%VerifiedDevin was released by Cognition in March 2024.
75%VerifiedThe core mechanism of Slack Code is that when a user @-mentions a coding agent in Slack and assigns a task, it automatically creates a dedicated channel pre-filled with context and relevant colleagues, the agent and team complete the build together within the channel, and upon task completion it creates a PR and archives the channel.
65%VerifiedDevin is a cloud-based AI coding Agent.
65%VerifiedThe $7.5 billion acquisition price is nearly 6 times OpenRouter's valuation from three months prior.
65%VerifiedDevin is an AI software engineer product developed by Cognition, which first debuted in early 2024
65%UnverifiedCognition的Devin于2024年初以全自主软件工程师的定位引发广泛关注
90%UnverifiedCognition的三位创始人Scott Wu、Neal Wu和Walden Yan曾代表UC Berkeley参加ACM编程竞赛，并拥有IOI金牌荣誉
85%UnverifiedDevin走差异化路线，没有在代码补全领域与GitHub Copilot正面竞争，而是切入'自主完成工程任务'的更高价值市场
80%UnverifiedDevin号称全球首位AI软件工程师，但实际能力遭到业内人士质疑，有35年经验的博主逐帧分析其演示视频揭露存在虚假宣传嫌疑
75%UnverifiedCognition（Devin的母公司）和Magic.dev均曾获得YC支持或关注
75%Unverified最有效的代码审查做法是让Review Agent拥有完全干净的上下文——不给它看原始需求和思考过程，只给它看最终的代码Diff
70%UnverifiedClaude Code和Devin等先进AI编程工具在并行多Agent协作架构上投入了大量工程资源
70%UnverifiedCognition was co-founded by Scott Wu, a former Scale AI executive.
60%UnverifiedCognition公司开发了AI编程助手Devin
60%UnverifiedIn the backend of the evaluation organization Cognition, a hidden model codenamed Obsidian-3 was found: under high compute on specific tasks it scored 46.8%, with an average cost of 8.62 dollars per task; Opus 5.5 in its full-power state scored 45.5%, with a task cost of 12.82 dollars.
50%UnverifiedCognition was reported to have received investment offers valuing it at $70-80 billion, a sharp surge just one month after its $48 billion valuation in September.
50%UnverifiedCognition's founder is Steven (@stevenkplus1), and its president is Russell Kaplan (@russelljkaplan).
50%UnverifiedCognition, Modal and Bun have already entered developers' view, and more companies founded by Scale alumni remain to be validated.
50%UnverifiedCognition, the company behind Devon, is valued at $48 billion, surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue in September, and runs its own model SWE-2.
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