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Devin now supports Android emulators
05.13.26Devin can now spin up an Android Virtual Device (AVD), enabling autonomous development for Android applications.
How to Automate Failure Triages and 10x Test Generation: What We've Learned Deploying AI Across HIL/SIL Workflows
05.11.26Requirements and ticket volumes keep growing while engineering capacity hasn't kept up. Through deployments with RV Tech and Mercedes, we share how AI is shortening validation cycles, automating failure triage, and saving thousands of engineering hours monthly.
Devin heads east: Cognition opens its Singapore APAC headquarters
04.30.26Cognition is expanding its APAC presence from Singapore, where enterprise demand, developer talent, and national AI adoption are converging. With Richard Spence leading the region, we’re helping teams across Asia-Pacific bring autonomous software engineering into production.
Engineering in the fast lane: Mercedes-Benz partners with Cognition
04.27.26Mercedes-Benz is deploying Devin and Windsurf across its global engineering organization, starting with legacy modernization, cloud-native development, and logistics.
Devin for Terminal: Start Local, Hand Off to the Cloud
04.27.26Start a Devin session in your terminal. When the work outgrows your laptop, hand the same session off to the cloud and keep going.
What We Learned Building Cloud Agents
04.23.26Building cloud agents is difficult. We share some learnings from building Devin.
Multi-Agents: What's Actually Working
04.22.2610 months ago I argued against building multi-agent systems. Today, a narrower class works, where agents contribute intelligence while writes stay single-threaded. I want to share what we've learned building them at Cognition.
Devin in Windsurf
04.15.26Local agents make you faster. Cloud agents do the work while you're not there.
Introducing SWE-Check: 10x Faster Bug Detection
04.14.26Smaller specialized models can match or beat frontier generalists on the tasks they're trained for. Working with Applied Compute, we RL-trained SWE-check, a bug detection model that matches Opus 4.6 on our internal evals while running ~10x faster.
New self-serve plans for Devin
04.14.26We’re retiring the old Core and Team plans and introducing a new lineup: Free, Pro, Max, Teams, and Enterprise. We’re also beginning to charge for products that have been free until now, including Ask Devin and Devin Review.
Launching in Japan with Takumi Masai
04.09.26Today we're launching Cognition Japan, our first expansion into Asia, to partner with Japanese enterprises ready to transform how software gets built.
How Devin Is Modernizing COBOL at Fortune 500 Companies
04.08.26We wrote up why COBOL is so hard for agents, what it takes to get it right, and where Devin is delivering today.
Introducing SWE 1.6: Improving Model UX
04.07.26We're releasing SWE-1.6, our latest model optimized for both intelligence and model UX.
Devin can now Schedule Devins
03.20.26Devin can now schedule its own recurring sessions. Run a task once, and if it goes well, tell Devin to keep doing it. It maintains state between runs, so each session picks up where the last one left off.
Devin can now Manage Devins
03.19.26Devin can now break down large tasks and delegate them to a team of managed Devins, with each running in its own isolated VM in parallel.
An Early Preview of SWE-1.6 and Research Update
03.01.26We are sharing an early preview of our ongoing SWE-1.6 training run.
How Cognition Uses Devin to Build Devin
02.27.26Devin is a cloud agent platform for engineering teams. You work with it like a teammate — give it tasks, review its PRs, and let it handle your backlog. Here's how we use it to build Devin itself.
Introducing Cognition for Government
02.25.26Today, we launch Cognition for Government to modernize America’s critical infrastructure with AI software engineering.
Introducing Devin 2.2
02.24.26Today we’re releasing Devin 2.2, the most important update to Devin since launch.
Closing the Agent Loop: Devin Autofixes Review Comments
02.10.26We built a feature that massively increased our internal token spend on Devin. But our PRs are now much more free of bugs and we can't go back.
Cognizant partners with Cognition to scale Devin and Windsurf across its engineering organization and global clients
01.28.26Cognizant has partnered with Cognition to deploy Devin and Windsurf across its engineering teams and customer base.
Devin crosses the pond: Cognition opens its London office
01.28.26Cognition expands to Europe and opens a London office.
Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop
01.21.26As code generation gets easier, code review is the new bottleneck. That's why we're launching a new way to quickly review and understand complex PRs in our latest tool for codebase understanding - augmenting human attention with AI.
Infosys partners with Cognition to expand engineering capacity and help scale its enterprise business
01.07.26Infosys, a global leader in digital services and consulting, has partnered with Cognition to deploy Devin, the AI software engineer, across its organization and global client base.
Devin's 2025 Performance Review: Learnings From 18 Months of Agents At Work
11.14.25Eighteen months since launch, Devin’s gone from tackling small projects, to deeply embedding in engineering teams at thousands of companies, including some of the largest businesses in the world. We decided it was well past time for Devin to get a performance review - just like any human engineer.
Windsurf Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
11.04.25Codemaps is meant to offer a shared understanding of a system between humans and AI, enabling your AI to teach you about the code you are looking at quickly and elegantly. A codemap can be generated about any system or snippet to illuminate its code paths, helping users learn and recall. Codemaps allows AI to be a partner that explains code in an accurate and consistent way, rather than generating tons of inscrutable slop.
Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model
10.29.25Today we’re releasing SWE-1.5, the latest in our family of models optimized for software engineering. It is a frontier-size model with hundreds of billions of parameters that achieves near-SOTA coding performance. It also sets a new standard for speed: we partnered with Cerebras to serve it at up to 950 tok/s – 6x faster than Haiku 4.5 and 13x faster than Sonnet 4.5. SWE-1.5 is now available in Windsurf!
Automating .NET Framework → .NET Core with Devin
10.28.25Engineering teams dread migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core. However, autonomous coding agents are rapidly changing the previously known timelines. What once took months, teams are now finishing in as little as two weeks — with Devin.
Introducing SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini: RL for Multi-Turn, Fast Context Retrieval
10.16.25We trained SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini, fast agentic models specialized in highly parallel context retrieval. They match the retrieval capabilities of frontier coding models, while taking an order of magnitude less time. Available now in Windsurf’s new Fast Context subagent, and our new SWE-grep demo playground!
Announcing Devin Agent Preview with Sonnet 4.5
09.29.25Today we're releasing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Devin, alongside our new Devin Agent Preview that's over 2x faster and 12% better on our Jr. Developer Evals.
Rebuilding Devin for Claude Sonnet 4.5: Lessons and Challenges
09.29.25We rebuilt Devin for Claude Sonnet 4.5. The new version is 2x faster, 12% better on our Junior Developer Evals, and it's available now in Agent Preview. For users who prefer the old Devin, that remains available.
Funding, growth, and the next frontier of AI coding agents
09.08.25Cognition has raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation led by Founders Fund. Other existing investors are similarly doubling down including Lux Capital and 8VC (who jointly led our previous round), Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC. We’re also joined by new investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and D1 Capital.
How Eight Sleep Uses Devin as a Data Analyst
09.04.25Building the future of sleep requires us to make data-driven product, operations, and finance decisions. But as a small team, we faced a challenge every scaling company knows well: the flood of random data asks. We needed leverage. So we hired an analyst who never sleeps: Devin AI.
Build Your Own AI Data Analyst
08.28.25Our #analytics Slack channel looks completely different than it did a year ago. Like most companies, we used to struggle with analytics. Even seemingly simple questions like "Why is enterprise plan revenue spiking for this cohort?" led to ping chains of doom. Getting answers often took days or weeks. Now, it takes minutes. What changed? We trained our own 24/7 on-demand data scientist.
Enterprise Guide: Migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions at Scale
08.05.25How modern DevOps teams are replacing legacy CI/CD pipelines and accelerating transformation using AI automation.
Devin's MCP Marketplace
07.22.25You can now connect your favorite MCP servers to Devin.
Cognition’s acquisition of Windsurf
07.14.25Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.
Coding Agents 101: The Art of Actually Getting Things Done
06.27.25The year is 2025. Coding agents aren't magic, but they're about the closest thing we have. We've noticed some engineers, in particular at the senior-to-staff level, finding success faster than others. Here we share some top lessons sourced from the experience of our customers and ourselves.
Blockdiff: How we built our own file format for VM disk snapshots
06.23.25How we built blockdiff, an open-source tool for rapid block-level diffs and snapshots of VM disks.
Don’t Build Multi-Agents
06.12.25Frameworks for LLM Agents have been surprisingly disappointing. I want to offer some principles for building agents based on our own trial & error, and explain why some tempting ideas are actually quite bad in practice.
The DeepWiki MCP Server
05.22.25The DeepWiki MCP server is here. Get codebase context and answers about any public GitHub repository in seconds.
The Devin Open Source Initiative is Back
05.19.25Open source code maintainers can now apply for free Devin ACUs.
Devin 2.1
05.15.25We’re announcing some major changes in Devin 2.1. Devin now reports its confidence that it can complete tasks using 🟢 🟡 🔴 and is more likely to succeed in large codebases with better codebase context 🧠
Kevin-32B: Multi-Turn RL for Writing CUDA Kernels
05.06.25We explore reinforcement learning in a multi-turn setting, using intermediate feedback from the environment, and masking model thoughts to avoid exploding context over multiple turns.
DeepWiki: AI docs for any repo
05.05.25Turn any public GitHub repo into up-to-date documentation you can talk to, for free.
Devin 2.0
04.03.25Introducing an agent-native IDE experience and a new Core plan starting at $20.
Devin February '25 Product Update
02.26.25Devin is better at testing UI changes locally, can do batch (parallel) edits, and proactively gives you feedback on suboptimal prompts! We've also added support for GitLab, incorporated Sonnet 3.7 into Devin, and more.
Linktree expands social media platform coverage and ships new features with Devin
02.13.25How Linktree ships new prototypes and support for new social media platforms with Devin, while skipping the lengthy prioritization process.
Devin 101: Automatic PR Reviews with the Devin API
01.21.25How to set up a Github Actions workflow that uses the Devin API to review PRs
Devin January '25 Product Update
01.16.25Introducing Devin 1.2! We’ve made major improvements to Devin’s ability to reason in context in a repository. We’ve also introduced voice messages to Devin, enterprise account management, easier usage-based billing, and more.
Scaling Open Source Development of GOAT with Devin: A Crossmint Case Study
01.14.25How Crossmint is scaling Open Source Development of GOAT with Devin as part of the Devin Open Source Initiative
Devin December '24 Product Update (Part 2)
12.23.24Over the last 2-3 weeks, we've made Devin faster, more cost-efficient, and more customizable. Issues that caused Devin to crash or get stuck have been fixed.
Announcing The Devin Open Source Initiative
12.12.24OSS contributions Devin has already helped to make, and more about our Open Source Initiative.
Devin is now generally available
12.10.24The work Devin has been doing and how your team can start using Devin today.
Devin December '24 Product Update
12.03.24Work with Devin just as you would with human teammates, via Slack threads and PR review comments. Or, try handing Devin async tasks directly from your IDE. Devin now guides you through the onboarding it needs to be successful, better contributes to existing codebases, and is a faster, more reliable teammate.
A review of OpenAI’s o1 and how we evaluate coding agents
09.12.24Testing OpenAI’s newest o1 series of models with Devin for autonomous coding tasks
Devin September '24 Product Update
09.05.24Devin is now faster, more accurate with code edits, more reliable at following your instructions, and better at independent decision making. We’ve also improved our support for enterprise security requirements and introduced new ways of working with Devin.
Using Devin to Recover from the CrowdStrike Outage
07.20.24A lot of businesses and critical systems were affected by the CrowdStrike outage yesterday, and we wanted to explore how Devin can help.
Devin June '24 Product Update
06.05.24We’ve been working closely with a diverse range of companies and developers to make Devin a more collaborative, knowledgeable, and productive teammate. We’re excited to share some recent improvements here.
SWE-bench technical report
03.15.24One of our goals at Cognition is to enable Devin, an AI agent specializing in software development, to contribute code successfully to large, complex codebases.
Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
03.12.24Setting a new state of the art on the SWE-bench coding benchmark. Meet Devin, the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer.