Scott Wu
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Scott Wu is an American entrepreneur and the CEO of Cognition AI, a company he co-founded. He also co-founded Lunchclub earlier in his career. Wu is a competitive programmer who won three gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics and placed third in the 2021 Google Code Jam. He has commented publicly on how OpenAI's o1 model approaches coding tasks, noting that it reasons through problems in a manner closer to human problem-solving via an extended thinking process.
Updated 6 August 2026
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September 2026
Cognition raises a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation for its AI coding agent Devin Funding
August 2026
September 2024
OpenAI releases o1-mini and demonstrates o1 reasoning model applications across genetics, economics, physics, and coding Model release