Devin

Devin is built by Cognition AI (Cognition Labs), a US-based startup founded in 2023 and led by CEO Scott Wu. The company focuses on autonomous AI agents for software engineering and launched Devin publicly in 2024, describing it as an AI software engineer.

Cognition develops Devin as an agent that can independently take on coding tasks end to end. The company has expanded its engineering tooling portfolio, including through acquisitions, and positions Devin as a way to augment or automate developer workflows at scale.

Devin can take a natural-language task and produce a step-by-step plan before executing it, then write and edit code, run and debug it, and carry work through to deployment. Devin 2.0 added interactive planning, Devin Search for natural-language repository exploration, and Devin Wiki for automated architecture documentation.

Devin operates with its own sandboxed development environment, including a shell, editor, and browser, and integrates with source control and collaboration tools. It is designed to work on multiple tasks in parallel and to collaborate with human engineers who review and guide its work.

Devin targets software engineering teams and organizations that want to offload well-defined development tasks, backlogs, migrations, and maintenance work to an autonomous agent. It appeals to startups and enterprises seeking to increase engineering throughput, with tiers scaling from individual developers to large teams.

Cognition AI has raised significant venture funding. It raised a USD 175 million Series A led by Founders Fund at a reported USD 2 billion valuation in 2024, and by March 2025 its valuation had roughly doubled to about USD 4 billion. Subsequent rounds reportedly raised the valuation to around USD 10.2 billion, with further large fundraising reported in 2026 at higher valuations. Investors have included Founders Fund and other prominent venture firms.