Startups on machine-learning on code

by Martin Monperrus

Applying machine learning to source code is a hot topic. There are many academic papers on this, and more and more companies. Myself, I’ve been working on this topic for some time. In this page, I maintain a list of companies working on this.

Active Startups

Post-LLM era

Github Copilot is a huge success by Github to be the first massively used AI-based code completion tool.

Cursor, by Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment

Aide / Codestory

Codeium has extensions for all editors, and its own IDE called windsurf.

Cognition / Devin sets too high expectations and got backlash but still in the game.

Poolside Fine-tune a model on company practices, libraries, APIs, and knowledge bases, same idea as SelfAPR

Magic AI startup creating models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks

Supermaven Fast AI Code Completion, bought by Cursor in November 2024.

Pre-LLM era

Defunkt

incl. pure program repair companies.