WSJ Tech News Briefing · Monday, July 6, 2026
Scott Wu, CEO of AI startup Cognition, discussed the company's AI software engineer, Deven, which aims to accelerate software development globally. Wu highlighted how their collaboration with Anthropic's Claude AI model has enabled them to deliver advanced capabilities and usher in a new era of software engineering.
“What we do at Cognition is we build Deven, the first AI software engineer, and a suite of tools around that.”
“Our whole mission is to help build software around the world 10 times faster.”
“By getting to work with Anthropic, we're able to go and deliver customers the exact capabilities that they're looking for.”