PETER THIEL-BACKED COGNITION LAUNCHES AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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AI start-up Cognition has launched Devin, a groundbreaking AI software engineer capable of autonomously managing full development projects, from coding to execution. Unlike other coding assistants, Devin can independently handle a wide range of software engineering tasks, demonstrating superior performance compared to other models like Claude 2, SWE-Llama-13b, and GPT-4 in the SWE-bench test by resolving 13.86% of issues end-to-end without human intervention.