Cognition, an applied AI lab focused on reasoning, is behind the creation of Devin. The company aims to build AI teammates with capabilities far beyond today's existing AI tools. Cognition is well-funded, with a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund and support from industry leaders. Devin is currently in early access and those interested in using it for engineering work can get in touch with Cognition. The company is also looking for talent to join their team, which includes leaders and builders who have worked at the cutting edge of applied AI at companies like Cursor, Scale AI, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, Waymo, and Nuro.
Key takeaways:
- Devin, the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer, has been introduced. It can plan and execute complex engineering tasks, learn over time, fix mistakes, and actively collaborate with the user.
- Devin can learn how to use unfamiliar technologies, build and deploy apps end to end, autonomously find and fix bugs in codebases, train and fine tune its own AI models, and contribute to mature production repositories.
- Devin's performance was evaluated on SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark that asks agents to resolve real-world GitHub issues. Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%.
- Cognition, the company behind Devin, is an applied AI lab focused on reasoning and is well funded, including a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund. Devin is currently in early access as they ramp up capacity.