Cognition AI
Cognition
Cognition AI is a US-based AI coding company founded in 2023 by Scott Wu, a Chinese-American entrepreneur born in 1997 . It is the developer of Devin, launched in December 2024 as the first AI programmer capable of writing code and completing entire projects without human intervention, priced at $500 per month . The company has adopted an extreme lean-engineering model: its team numbers just 15 people, with each engineer supported by a "virtual team" of five Devin agents, and roughly a quarter of internal GitHub pull requests are already handled by Devin itself . In mid-2025, Cognition closed a Series A of several hundred million dollars at a valuation near $4 billion, roughly doubling its previous mark, and has since acquired Windsurf with its team and direction being restructured . Scott Wu frames Devin as shifting engineers from "bricklayers to architects"—humans set direction and specifications while the AI handles execution asynchronously .
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