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Scott Wu
Scott Wu is a co-founder and chief executive of Cognition, the US startup behind the autonomous coding agent Devin. A competitive-programming champion who won gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics and graduated from Harvard, he previously co-founded and was chief technology officer of the networking startup Lunchclub before starting Cognition in 2023.
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Cognition acquires remainder of Windsurf
Cognition took Windsurf's IDE, IP and $82 million-ARR business days after Google paid $2.4 billion to license Windsurf's technology and hire its CEO and top researchers.
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Cognition demos Devin, billed as the first AI software engineer
Cognition said Devin resolved 13.86% of real GitHub issues unassisted on the SWE-bench benchmark, against roughly 2% for the prior best system.
Models & capabilities · Culture & impact