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Cognition, creators of the AI software engineer Devin, raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, with customers like Mercedes-Benz cutting project times drastically.
What: Cognition secured over $1 billion in funding at a $26 billion valuation from investors including Lux Capital and General Catalyst. Their AI software engineer, Devin, has helped clients like Mercedes-Benz reduce an eight-month project to eight days, and Itaú fix 70% of security vulnerabilities automatically. Cognition's internal team reports 89% of code commits are by Devin.
Why it matters: This substantial funding and rapid adoption by large enterprises underscore a growing industry trend towards AI-powered autonomous agents significantly streamlining software development, suggesting a future where AI handles a large percentage of code commits.
Takeaway: Evaluate how AI agents like Devin could accelerate your team's software development lifecycle, particularly for legacy modernization or security vulnerability remediation.
Deep dive
  • Cognition raised over $1 billion in funding, reaching a $26 billion valuation.
  • Investors include Lux Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Founders Fund, and others.
  • Devin, an AI software engineer, was launched two years ago.
  • Enterprise usage has grown over 10x this year, with run-rate revenue at $492 million.
  • Major clients include Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, Elevance, Dell, Santander, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy.
  • Mercedes-Benz cut an eight-month legacy modernization project to eight days using Devin.
  • Itaú, Latin America’s largest bank, uses Devin to automatically fix 70% of security vulnerabilities.
  • Cognition operates as an "agent lab," collaborating with various foundation model labs to optimize model usage for specific tasks.
  • They recently launched SWE-1.6, a model known for cost-effectiveness and speed (up to 950 tok/s).
  • Cognition's internal engineering team reports 89% of code committed is by Devin or local agents in Windsurf.
Decoder
  • Agent lab: A company focused on developing and deploying AI agents that can autonomously perform complex tasks, often by orchestrating multiple underlying AI models.
Original article

Cognition has raised over $1B at a $26B valuation led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with support from existing investors including Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Alpha Wave, Definition Capital, Positive Sum, Avenir, Vitruvian, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, 137 Ventures, Soma Capital, and Omri Casspi. We’re also excited to welcome new investors including Ribbit Capital, Atreides, and Layer Global.

We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software. Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492M.

As we’ve scaled, Cognition has become a trusted partner for the world’s largest and most impactful organizations like Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, Elevance, Dell, Santander, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy. Fast-growing startups like Exa, Modal, Eight Sleep, and OpenRouter have also made their software development lifecycle more autonomous with Devin.

Customers are delivering real outcomes with this leverage. Mercedes-Benz cut an eight-month legacy modernization project down to eight days. Systems integrators like Infosys and Cognizant have embedded Devin into how they deliver work to ship projects faster than ever before. Itaú, Latin America’s largest bank, fixes 70% of security vulnerabilities automatically with Devin.

The Independent Agent Lab

Cognition is an agent lab. We work closely with all of the foundation model labs to make sure every Cognition customer gets the best of all models available.

The value of independence is increasing as token usage grows exponentially across the industry.

Teams today care more than ever about the ratio of price to performance, which requires using the right model for the right task. We evaluate model performance across 100+ categories of software engineering tasks, and architect Devin to help engineering teams automatically manage spend.

Earlier this year, we started building out our model training program. We recently launched SWE-1.6, which has become the most used model in Windsurf, and which customers love for both its cost and speed (up to 950 tok/s).

What’s Next

We’re now shifting to a world of self-driving software development. Individual engineers are able to spend more of their time on the creative structuring of problems and tasks, and their army of Devins reliably executes. Our own engineering team provides some of the clearest evidence of this shift: at Cognition, 89% of code committed by our engineers is committed by Devin (and the rest by local agents in Windsurf).

We’re growing our team to match this moment. If you’re excited about building the future of software engineering in a world with many more software engineers, join us. And if you haven’t seen the latest in Devin firsthand, try it out now.

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