UK-founded AI startup Cosine has raised $2.5 million from SOMA and Uphonest in a round that also included funds like Lakestar and Focal. In parallel, it achieved a breakthrough in AI-assisted software development with its artificial developer, Genie.
Based between San Francisco and London, Cosine’s Artificial Developer, Genie, works like a very good human developer.
For instance, it is able to solve bugs, build features, refactor code, and everything in between either fully autonomously or collaboratively with other developers.
Founded in 2022, Y-Combinator-backed Cosine’s software was created out of the founder’s realisation of the potential in using LLMs to perform complex tasks in the coding space by imitating human software developers’ behaviours. It is uncannily ‘human’ in its approach to reasoning as a result, with the founders’ primary goal to create truly resilient AI capable of tackling open-ended problems across various domains
The company has achieved a 30 per cent score on SWE-Bench, the industry standard for evaluating software engineering skills in AI models.
