Company Research Report: Cognition

Company Overview

• Name: Cognition

• Mission: Cognition aims to build collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

• Founding: No information is available.

• Key People:

• David Morse - VP Enterprise

• Andrew Unger - Investor at Conversion Capital

• Diego Chulak - IT Solution Architect, IT Data Manager, IT Architecture Manager

• Jonathan Gottfried - Leveling up the next generation of technologists

• Headquarters: No specific information is available; associated location is Seattle, WA.

• Number of Employees: 2-10 employees

• Revenue: No information is available.

• Known For: Cognition is known for creating Devin, the world’s first AI software engineer, and focusing on building end-to-end software agents in the software development industry.

Products

• Devin (AI Software Engineer)

• Description: Devin is an autonomous AI agent specializing in software development. Designed to collaborate with engineering teams and handle engineering tasks autonomously.

• Key Features:

• Merged over 100 PRs for Linktree to experiment with new social media platforms.

• Successfully refactored large-scale codebases as demonstrated in a partnership with Nubank.

• Speeds up engineering time, having accelerated project timelines by up to 16x.

• Integrated through Slack threads, PR review comments, and IDE-directed tasks.

• Evaluated in practical engineering interviews and maintains a new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark.

Recent Developments

• Recent Products Launched: Devin, the first AI software engineer, has been generally available since December 2024.

• New Features added to Devin:

• Improved reasoning abilities in context within repositories.

• New voice messaging integration and enterprise account management for easier billing.

• Enhanced contribution capabilities to codebases for a faster and more reliable experience.

• New Partnerships:

• Microsoft: A strategic partnership to bring Devin to developers, focusing on code migrations and using Microsoft's platforms like Azure, VS Code, and GitHub.

• Contributions to popular open-source projects such as Anthropic MCP, LlamaIndex, and Zod as part of their Open Source Initiative.

• Product Updates:

• Devin 1.2 released in January 2025 with major improvements.

• Continuous enhancements to make Devin faster, more accurate, and cost-efficient as reported in December 2024.

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This report provides a comprehensive overview of Cognition's offerings, focusing predominantly on their innovative AI product, Devin. The company appears to have made significant strides in the artificial intelligence and software engineering realms through strategic partnerships and technological advancements.