At Cog we joke that we always build out functions way too late but then suddenly become world class at them. Marketing is no exception - was completely nonexistent for us until pretty recently!
Brandon is one-of-a-kind and is the right leader to take our story global. Hopefully you've started to feel some of the impact of it already :)
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Fun deep dive from @jkelleyrtp on Devin Mac:
Several months of work went into building Devin's Cloud Mac!
We had to rebuild its disk, networking, provisioning, VNC, and computer use from scratch, in Rust.
Read my first X article about how it all works 😊
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Great essay. Please take this seriously - would highly recommend reading up on the Hugging Face incident and others if you haven't already.
Very glad to see agreement on this across the industry.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here:
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We've seen far more demand for SWE-2 than anticipated, leading to some capacity shortages – thank you for your patience as we scale up compute!
We'll be extending the free SWE-2 promo into October to make sure everyone gets a chance to try it.
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SWE-2 is live! Really proud of the work our research team put into this one. Our first model where we're seeing performance comparable to the frontier.
Making it free for the next month for anyone on a Devin plan - let us know what you think!
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Introducing SWE-2, our closest model yet to the frontier.
On leading evals, it scores on par with recent frontier models – at up to 70% lower cost.
We scaled RL to multiple trillions of parameters, with a refined recipe that pushes the Pareto curve on both capabilities & cost.
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a16z backed my first company. Really excited for the chance to run it back with @pmarca and team!
This one feels special - a lot of folks on this list we've admired for years and now finally get to work with.
Above all I'm grateful for the incredible team that we have. Every day at Cog still feels like getting in a room together and trying to build something great.
Also, grateful that Devin is actually good now. Would have looked really dumb otherwise.
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devin by @cognition is the best all in one package right now
and it's not even close
so many things i use of it just makes me think "this makes so much sense, how did no one think of this before?"
it's the bar to reach for any local/cloud aio agent
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We’re proud to announce Swish III, a $250M early fund, bringing Swish Ventures to $800M in total AUM.
I started this firm to spend my career supporting the artists who build and shape the future.
The technology shift underway is unlike anything we’ve seen. We plan to stay true to our colors: few investments a year, real concentration and partnership.
Grateful to the founders we get to work with, who inspire so much of how we work, and to our LPs for walking this path with us.
We are more locked in than ever.
Omri
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I've been writing about @ScottWu46 since he was 18. Don't think I really started to understand him until this year. Here's my piece on the rise of a nerd king.
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Congrats to @ClementDelangue and the whole HF team! Really important work for the industry.
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.
Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.
NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗
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Had not used Devin from @cognition and @ScottWu46 in a long, long time. And, good lord, did it improve.
I can't code anything and made this in about a half hour. Craziest thing was the video highlight reel it made by going over our YouTube channel and picking out the most kinetic clips with minimal guidance.
I'm a dork and legit got a buzz.
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The Devin webapp is getting a facelift. 80% less loading lag, customizable sidebar, do everything with ⌘K, and more.
This is not true. Huge respect for the SpaceX team but Cognition is not for sale and we haven't been talking.
At Cognition, one of our values is to go for it all: when faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction.
When we launched Devin in 2024, we envisioned a future where every team had an infinite army of junior engineers. We were early and Devin wasn't good enough.
Now it is! The only constraint left is how ambitious you're willing to be.
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Congratulations to the Cursor team on an exciting next phase! Have always admired the incredible work you all have done in a few short years.
One of the best teams in Silicon Valley today.
Cursor is now part of @SpaceX.
Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help make Grok the world's most useful AI and improve Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, Cursor, and more.
SpaceX has built some of the most inspiring and impressive technology in the world, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to become part of such a special company. Onwards.
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Exceptional team, enormous market, great founder-market fit. Sometimes you just know.
Congrats to @moritz_stephan and the whole Hone team - this will be one to watch!
Announcing Hone
Intelligence has become abundant. Yet the world looks remarkably similar to how it did five years ago. With every model release, the gap between what frontier AI can do and the economic value derived from it widens.
Closing the gap requires re-organizing work around organizational outcomes, not individual tasks. Hone builds AI that creates, orchestrates, and improves agents and software continuously to own organizational outcomes over weeks and months.
We are ex-founders and early core contributors to Cognition, Mercor, Ramp, and OpenAI. We obsess over real-world value, not theoretical benchmarks.
Our core beliefs on closing the gap in the thread below.
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Art was a legend at Brex. Thrilled to have him at Cognition!
I've spent the last decade getting deals done.
I’m now going to do them at one of the most important AI companies in the game. I am joining @cognition as VP of Global Partnerships.
Eight years at Brex taught me how to sprint at what I do best. Grateful to the team that bet on me.
Cognition’s insane talent density and ambition made it the obvious next move. The dealmaking opportunity is real. Time to get back in the arena. 🚀
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One of the things I’m most proud of is the people I get to work with every day. Our goal is to find the #1# person for any role, and Paul is simply the best at what he does. Welcome to Cognition!
Devin just got new counsel. Today I’m joining @cognition as Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer.
Incredible price/performance by the GPT-5.6 series on FrontierCode.
All Devin users should see the cost decreases reflected automatically!
We've updated FrontierCode 1.1 to reflect new discounts for GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna. With these new costs, the GPT-5.6 series sits on the pareto curve of price/performance efficiency.
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