Cognition is currently offering early access to Devin and is inviting interested parties to reach out for more information. The company is also hiring and is particularly interested in individuals excited about solving some of the world's biggest problems and building AI that can reason. Cognition is well-funded, with a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund and support from industry leaders such as Patrick and John Collison, Elad Gil, Sarah Guo, Chris Re, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Erik Bernhardsson, Tony Xu, and Fred Ehrsam.
Key takeaways:
- Devin, the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer, can plan and execute complex engineering tasks, learn over time, fix mistakes, and actively collaborate with users.
- 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, address bugs and feature requests in open source repositories, 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, where it correctly resolved 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.