Move over, Devin: Cosine’s Genie takes the AI coding crown

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It wasn’t long ago that the startup Cognition was blowing minds with its product Devin, an AI-based software engineer powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 foundation large language model (LLM) on the backend that could autonomously write and edit code when given instructions in natural language text.

Now, another “C”-named startup, Cosine, a which was founded through the esteemed Y Combinator startup accelerator in San Francisco, has announced its own new autonomous AI-powered engineer Genie, which it says handily outperforms Devin, scoring 30%  on third-party benchmark test SWE-Bench compared to Devin’s 13.8%, and even surpassing the 19% scored by Amazon’s Q and Factory’s Code Droid.

“This model is so much more than a benchmark score: it was trained from the start to think and behave like a human SWE [software engineer],” wrote Cosine’s co-founder and CEO Alistair Pullen in a post on his account on the social network X.

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