Art was a legend at Brex. Thrilled to have him at Cognition!
I've spent the last decade getting deals done.
I’m now going to do them at one of the most important AI companies in the game. I am joining @cognition as VP of Global Partnerships.
Eight years at Brex taught me how to sprint at what I do best. Grateful to the team that bet on me.
Cognition’s insane talent density and ambition made it the obvious next move. The dealmaking opportunity is real. Time to get back in the arena. 🚀
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One of the things I’m most proud of is the people I get to work with every day. Our goal is to find the #1# person for any role, and Paul is simply the best at what he does. Welcome to Cognition!
Devin just got new counsel. Today I’m joining @cognition as Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer.
Incredible price/performance by the GPT-5.6 series on FrontierCode.
All Devin users should see the cost decreases reflected automatically!
We've updated FrontierCode 1.1 to reflect new discounts for GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna. With these new costs, the GPT-5.6 series sits on the pareto curve of price/performance efficiency.
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Great review by @htaneja!
How can venture better serve founders in an era of extremely concentrated outcomes? This question runs through my Q2 review and my conversation with @packyM:
The Great Concentration
Fixing the K-shaped Economy
Buying a Hospital
What a VC Is Actually For (and capital entrepreneurship)
The Stack as the Antidote
My answer, across all of it: innovate on capital so more companies can thrive, and transform legacy institutions so the benefits of intelligence reach everyone.
read here:
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rumor is you get one of these after your 10,000th merged devin pr
Fun convo in Paris with @MollySOShea!
BREAKING: Devin now writes ~95% of Devin's code
Scott Wu (@ScottWu46), CEO of @cognition says the abundance era of AI is real & coming soon..
FULL INTERVIEW
Cog Stats:
› $2.5B raised, $26B valuation
› $500M+ run rate, up from $37M LY
› Customer usage is up 11x-12x in 6 months
› Total code shipped inside Cognition has grown 7x
› Devin writes ~95% of Cog's code, up from 89% at May Series D
› The entire Windsurf acquisition was negotiated over 1 weekend, ~40 people buying a 200 person company with $82M of ARR
› Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz, Citi, Dell, Santander, NASA, the US Navy & the US Army all run Devin
R I P : "The tokenmaxx era lasted from January to May of 2026, roughly."
"I'm excited to have AI that allows me to spend all of my time & focus on the things that I care about & take care of the rest. I think the abundance era is real, & I think we'll be there pretty soon."
Recorded 7 July 2026. On 23 July 2026 Cognition acquired Poke maker The Interaction Company
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Scott Wu, Co-Founder & CEO at Cognition
(01:00) The Identity crisis of building Devin
(01:42) How Cognition 7X-ed its output in 6 months
(02:55) The Metric every AI company gets wrong
(04:18) Cognition's 12x growth curve
(07:46) The Windsurf acquisition
(13:26) Scaling overnight: Cognition's hardest week
(15:11) The strategy behind the integration of Cognition products
(17:23) Cognition's M&A playbook
(20:01) Why the DMV is Cognition's next big target
(22:59) Why Cognition bet against AI centralization
(25:09) Why enterprises refuse to bet on a single AI lab
(28:32) Scott's honest take on Superintelligence
(32:36) Is Silicon Valley losing its mind over the AI gold rush?
(33:26) Devin's origin story
(37:17) The question Scott thinks nobody's asking yet
(39:59) Poker with Peter Thiel & Napoleon ?
(41:24) Scott's vision for the next year
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Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.
During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.
That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.
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Fun fact: @marvinvonhagen was on set for the original Devin launch video back in 2024. Really excited to work with this team - it’s been two years in the making :)
Cognition is acquiring @Interaction, the makers of Poke.
If you've ever used Poke, you know why we're so excited.
I've joined @cognition!
Why Cognition: extremely well thought-out end-to-end product, model-independent, obsessed with customers’ ROI instead of tokenmaxxing, and a cracked team moving at breakneck speed.
At Glean, I helped people get knowledge work done faster. Now doing the same for software engineering.
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AI gets more inevitable every day but most companies don't have a clear path to take full advantage of it. Danielle, Leah, and the whole Genius AI team are solving the practical problems that matter. Congratulations on all the progress!
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Introducing Genius AI: the platform handling scheduling, payments & admin for service businesses.
GlossGenius is now part of Genius AI. We’re nearing $200M ARR, powering over 125K businesses.
We’re also announcing our Series D at a $1.15B valuation, with $125M raised to date.
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Welcome to Cognition!
Personal update: I’ve joined @Cognition to lead engineering.
I’m grateful to @asha_shar and everyone at Xbox for an amazing year.
Excited for this next chapter with @ScottWu46 and team.
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It's an honor to get to work with Anhang, Yun and the TierZero team. Excited for the next step of self-driving software!
Two years ago, we set out to make software self-driving.
Today, TierZero is joining @Cognition to finish the job: make agents write code and keep it running.
@yunpark93 and I couldn't be more excited for what's next! 🚀
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Great piece on my good friend @saranormous! Grateful for everything you do.
One year ago today, Cognition acquired Windsurf, capping off one of the crazier weekends in our company's history.
The outline has been told many times: the first call on Friday evening, the rush through Saturday and Sunday to figure out the plan together, and then the signed agreement by Monday morning. On the Cognition side, we knew we had to move fast — Windsurf had millions of users, a brand developers loved, and a great team. We printed an LOI and headed to their offices on Saturday morning ready to sign on the spot. When we got in a room with Jeff and Graham, things clicked: they had built one of the best GTM orgs in Silicon Valley and needed engineering; we had the engineering org that needed GTM. They were building an IDE, we were building a cloud agent. Everything lined up.
When we welcomed the team, we said “there's only one boat and we're all in it together.” Then we got to work. Three days after close, we shipped Wave 11: "Just Keep Shipping" – and that set the tone for everything to come. In the year since, we’ve launched our own models (including SWE1.7 just last week), Devin Review, Devin CLI, and unified everything into one brand with Devin Desktop. Along the way our team wrote 20M+ lines of code and grew revenue run rate from $73M to >$500M.
Thankful for the last year and excited to keep building the future of software engineering together!
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it's a pretty unique experience tbh. i grew up in louisiana where no one knew how to code and now i just show up and get carried by the cog team all day
I asked people which companies have the highest density of talented people they know:
1st. Cognition - 9 votes
Equal 1st. Anthropic - 9 votes
2nd. Modal - 5 votes
3rd. OpenAI - 4 votes
4th. Standard Intelligence - 3 votes
4th. Cursor - 3 votes
Two votes each:
- Ramp
- Flapping Airplanes
- DeepMind
- Long Lake
- Applied Compute
One vote each:
- SpaceXAI
- SpaceX (treated separately, one vote was for the AI lab subsidiary and one was for the rocket team)
- American Terawatt
- Mechanize
- Olix
- Fluidstack
- Chai Discovery
- Sail Research
- Etched
- Core Automation
- Specter
- Clay
- Applied Intuition
- Sierra
- Hivemind
- Bitrig
- Retro
- Thinking Machines
- Decagon
- Precigenetics
- Pangram
- Reflect
- Thrive Holdings
- Adaption
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Benchmark scores are exciting but more importantly we are seeing incredible results so far using this model in Devin! Try it out:
Introducing SWE-1.7, the most capable model we’ve trained yet.
It scores within a few points of the strongest frontier models at a fraction of the cost, and is now available at 1000 tok/s.
RL is not hitting its limit: after refining our recipe, we keep seeing gains as we scale
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Happy 4th! Proud to be an American today and every day.
If you’ve ever wondered why we will need 100X more AI inference in the future, and what it’s going to be driven by, this is another good example.
Devin pushes forward an idea of agentic mapreduce, which means we’ll now have swarms of agents that are processing large amounts of data (code) to handle tasks that humans never could have done before.
“Devin maps relevant signals across the repo, fans out focused agents over bounded shards, reduces their findings into one report, then verifies serious vulnerabilities in isolated sandboxes before marking them confirmed.”
In this case it’s code security, but there are tons of other use-cases in code and knowledge work. We see this at Box with customers that want to process and understand millions of documents for risk, insights, relationships, and more. This will play out in pharma, banking, and many other industries across all forms of unstructured data.
As an aside, these types of capabilities are generally only possible when you can deploy a variety of models (both the frontier and lower cost) because of the sheer amount of tokens that go into these use-cases. This is going to be a major value proposition for the applied AI layer.
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Demand for inference compute will grow exponentially at least as fast as the METR curve grows (and arguably faster). Excited to have more great chips on the market - congrats to the @Etched team!
We're coming out of stealth.
We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised.
Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads.
Our first racks ship this summer.
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