Cognition ships SWE-2: first model at frontier-level performance, free for Devin users for a month
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-09-11
Cognition CEO Scott Wu announced SWE-2, the company's first model with performance comparable to the frontier.
- Free for a month for anyone on a Devin plan
- Early user testing: at high effort SWE-2 beats GPT-5.6 Sol high; at max level it matches GPT-6 Astra medium at less than half the cost
A landmark release showing a coding-agent company's in-house model closing in on frontier labs.
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