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Cognition

Company www.cognition.ai ● Covered in 17 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph

Cognition is the company behind Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer. In recent coverage it released the SWE-2 coding model (a post-trained model built from Kimi K3 and trained with reinforcement learning) and integrated it into Devin Desktop and CLI, including changes to how the model is deployed and options for selectable reasoning effort. The company also rolled out Devin Voice and updates such as having Devin use GPT‑6 Astra to test its own software work, and it raised a $2B Series E at a $48B valuation while reporting rapid revenue growth.

Updated 17 September 2026

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Release activity

As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

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As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

Sep 2024 → Sep 2026

Coverage span

As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.

Funding history

Latest developments

Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost MarkTechPost · 4 days ago · 29 Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra OpenAI · 6 days ago · 50
Devin Voice Product Hunt · 1 week ago · 2
Cognition's SWE-2 Product Hunt · 1 week ago · 46
Devin maker Cognition raises over $2B at $48B valuation, nearly doubling its price tag in four months Tech Funding News · 1 week ago · 45
Cognition Raises $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation, Closing In on Cursor Trending Topics · 1 week ago · 8 [AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded Latent Space · 1 week ago · 18
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market TechCrunch · 1 week ago · 49

Timeline

Month Quarter Year

September 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra for agent use in self-testing and end-to-end system workflows Model release

Cognition launched SWE-2, a post-trained coding model built on Kimi K3 and optimized with reinforcement learning for lower cost and improved coding performance Model release

Cognition raises a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation for its AI coding agent Devin Funding

OpenAI announced an AI-generated, formally verified result for the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem using an internal multi-agent system Research publication

August 2026

Robotics startup Generalist raises an additional ~$200 million led by 8VC, pushing its valuation to about $3 billion Funding

Cognition AI is reported to be in talks to raise more than $1 billion at a valuation above $40 billion Funding

July 2026

Multiple conflicting podcast episodes report contradictory AI industry developments and announcements Other

June 2026

September 2024

OpenAI releases o1-mini and demonstrates o1 reasoning model applications across genetics, economics, physics, and coding Model release

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  • Partnered with SpaceX · 1 source

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