Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The round, which comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. The startup’s soaring valuation signals that VCs still see room…

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For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker

For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker

Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it’s marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast — and soften its threat to human jobs. It’s dehumanizing, and it’s accelerating….

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From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off

From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off

In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate built an impressive resume early on — joining the founding team of LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft in 1998 for $265 million), co-founding iLike (sold to MySpace for…

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