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Scott Wu
Background
Scott Wu founded Cognition and serves as its chief executive. [1]
Cognition’s Devin is described as an autonomous coding agent designed to plan and perform end-to-end software-engineering tasks. [1]
In August 2026, Wu said a report about acquisition talks with SpaceX was inaccurate, that the companies had not been in talks, and that Cognition was not for sale. [1]
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