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Cognition releases SWE-2 near frontier coding performance at sharply lower cost

Cognition released SWE-2 for Devin, reporting a 50 percent score on FrontierCode 1.1, within one point of Anthropic's Fable 5.1, at 64 percent lower cost. The company says the model was trained with reinforcement learning at multi-trillion-parameter scale and is available in Devin Desktop and CLI.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM52confidence 85/100

Why it moved the index

A lower-cost model approaching a frontier coding benchmark widens access to capable software agents and raises the pace of capability diffusion. The benchmark and cost claims are provider-reported, and the release does not establish dangerous-domain autonomy or independent real-world harm.

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  1. R1
    Toward 52 · confidence 85

    Adds Cognition's dated SWE-2 release, including reported frontier coding performance, lower cost, and deployment through Devin.

    11 Sept 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “Cognition releases SWE-2 near frontier coding performance at sharply lower cost” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 52 and confidence 85 out of 100 in the capability gains category.

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