Cognition's Devin AI coding agent doubles revenue to $1 billion a year

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    "title": "Cognition's Devin AI coding agent doubles revenue to $1 billion a year - Startup Fortune",
    "excerpt": "Cognition just crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue this month, roughly doubling its run rate from four months earlier. Unlike most AI unicorns still burning cash on promise, this one has enterprises actually paying for the work. Bloomberg reported on September 25 that Cognition, the maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin and owner of the Windsurf IDE, is now generating revenue at an annualized pace of $1 billion. That figure came from the company's own disclosure this month, and it caps a run that's hard to find anywhere else in AI right now: $492 million in annualized revenue in May, more than $900 million by early September, and now $1 billion. Four months, one company, revenue more than doubled. Scott Wu, Cognition's co-founder and CEO, has spent the last year building a two-year-old startup into one of the fastest-scaling software companies anyone can point to. Devin was pitched at launch as the first AI software engineer capable of working autonomously on real codebases, not just autocompleting a function here and there. That framing drew plenty of skepticism when Cognition first showed it off. The revenue curve since suggests enterprises stopped debating the framing and started paying for the output. Most of the growth is coming from two places: expanding enterprise usage of Devin itself, billed through per-seat subscriptions and usage-based Agent Compute Units...",
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