Former core developer of Devin secures $60 million in funding: The AI can modify its own workflows and even simulate trial-and-error before execution.

Beating AI News: Enterprise AI startup Hone has officially launched its Engines platform and closed a $60 million seed round, led by Benchmark and Index Ventures. Engines is built to long-term execute business goals set by enterprises, such as boosting sales conversion rates or cutting procurement costs. After a goal is defined, the Engine learns the company’s internal systems, historical data and workflows, autonomously creates the required agents and tools, then collaborates with employees to complete tasks. It also adjusts continuously based on feedback, eliminating the need for repeated manual task assignments. Engines can modify its own tools, code and memory, but all changes must pass simulation tests before going live. The system simulates colleague responses and business system shifts, rerunning work that would take weeks to finish in just minutes to verify that existing normal functions are not disrupted. Hone said that across 125 internal test scenarios, the proportion of issues caused by modifications dropped from 33% to 5%. Founder Moritz Stephan previously contributed to developing the core planning and execution system for Devin. Early clients include Cognition and AI inference platform Modal.