Max Martin

Building @cognition

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

@rex_woodbury Congrats Rex and Jared!!!

[Yash Patil @ypatil125]

"There should be as many models in the world as firms in the world."

Satya and I dig into when to own vs. rent your intelligence, why every company should be building and climbing its own private evals, and what makes for a stable frontier.

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

@DevinAI knows ball @Casspi18

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

We forgive you brother 👍

[jacky @jjacky]

i deeply apologize for making fun of devin by @cognition six months ago

i was not aware of your game

devin is really really really useful and good

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

Devin is now the best data analyst in the world

https://t.co/hVJYuxc8lB

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

👀

[David Senra @davidsenra]

@ryancarson @bhalligan Devin is awesome. Just recorded an episode with Scott Wu! Will be out soon.

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

Good things happen in Madrid @Pontifex

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

@FrancisSuarez Mayor Suarez, should I open the Cognition office in Miami?

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

Devin is the iPhone moment of 2026

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

https://t.co/O8s3tb1K5n

[Cognition @cognition]

1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc.

Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M.

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.

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

@cognition is RIPPING

[Bloomberg @business]

Cognition AI has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $26 billion valuation. https://t.co/BTIIauX347

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

Another reason to be short Mistral

[New York Post @nypost]

France bans Zyns and other nicotine pouches - with violators facing 5 years in prison and a shocking fine https://t.co/eG49CMesKD

[Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan]

Before Cognition / After Devin

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

♾️

[Cognition @cognition]

Introducing Devin Auto-Triage: Your AI first-responder with long-term memory.

Devin can monitor incoming bugs, alerts, and incidents, investigate them, and come back with context, next steps, or a PR.

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

Love getting emails like this

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

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[Colossus @colossusmag]

Scott Wu is the co-founder of Cognition AI, one of the fastest-growing companies in history. He’s also the greatest competitive programmer the US has ever produced. You may have seen him doing impossible card tricks and mental math.

You’ve never seen him asked about weed, Michael Jordan, cancer, and human consciousness over a punnet of strawberries. That is what Colossus editor-in-chief Jeremy Stern did on a recent visit to San Francisco.

For those less familiar with @ScottWu46: In 2nd grade, he entered a math competition for 7th graders, lost, and was so furious he still fumes about it 20 years later. The next year he entered the 9th-grade division as a 3rd-grader and got a perfect score.

Then he won first place at the US national middle-school math competition and three straight gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he became the greatest American gold-medalist and coach in history.

Most of the people running the biggest AI companies met as teenagers, competing for their countries on international math and science teams. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, to name just a few.

Most agree that the von Neumann among them was Scott Wu.

In November 2023, a few weeks after his mother died of lung cancer, on the day Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Wu founded his own AI company: Cognition.

He was 26 and saw earlier than almost anyone that AI would converge on agents that work in the background, 24/7, like coworkers. He shipped Cognition’s AI software engineer Devin in March 2024. It worked poorly, and he took intense public criticism for it.

Now, in its first 18 months of service, Devin has generated $445 million of revenue run rate and usage has doubled every eight weeks. The US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz are all customers. Cognition is raising at a valuation around $25 billion.

@JeremySternLA sat down with Wu, the emperor of the nerds, to ask the questions we’d all ask one of the smartest people in America—building the most consequential technology of our generation—if we ever got the chance.

As well as MJ and weed, they talk about the cluster of competitive math prodigies behind so much of AI, what makes us human when AGI arrives, and why Wu believes he was put on this earth to teach AI how to code.

Read the piece below.

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

TLDR; Devin is elite

https://t.co/nZOzT3tB5m

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

First recruiting email I've opened in years. What a subject line.

[Max Martin @Max18Martin]

Game changer

[Cognition @cognition]

The terminal hasn’t changed much since the 1970s. What you do with it has.

Introducing Devin for Terminal: everything we learned building Devin, now as a local agent, available right in your shell.

And when your work outgrows your laptop, hand it off to the cloud.