Was AutoGPT Really the First AI Agent? A Source Reconstruction
AutoGPT (March 30, 2023) is often called the first AI agent. The historical record is more interesting — and more contested — than that. A primary-source reconstruction.
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Cognition Said to Be in Talks to Raise at $25 Billion Valuation
Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer, is reportedly in talks for a new funding round at a valuation of roughly $25 billion — up from the $10.2 billion it reached in September 2025.
Read noteOpenAI's Agents SDK Signals the Industry Shift From Assistants to Autonomous Workers
OpenAI released its Agents SDK and Responses API in March 2025, productizing the autonomous agent loop that developers had been assembling from scratch since 2023. The release marks the point at which every major frontier lab officially entered the agent framework market.
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