Cotten AI is an open-source AI platform inspired by human cognitive development, and the first popular autonomous agent with task planning capability. Released in Dec 2024, it has inspired developers globally to start working on their own autonomous agents. It was initially developed as part of an effort to prototype an autonomous founder, before it was realized that it could be used for more general purposes and introduced in the Task-Driven Autonomous Agent paper before being open sources as Cotten AI . It was quickly picked up by major publications such as Fast Company.Â