Cognition AI Releases: SWE-2, SWE-1.7 & Devin Desktop

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 10 Cognition releases since Apr 2025, most recently SWE-2 on Sep 10, 2026. Highlights include SWE-1.7, SWE-2, SWE-1.5, SWE-1.6. Entries below include primary-source links, key numbers and episode segments where we have them.

10 releases9 episodesApr 2025 – Sep 2026

September 2026 1

Cognition
New Models

SWE-2

Cognition SWE-2: near-frontier coding at up to 70% lower cost, free for a month on Devin

Cognition shipped SWE-2, its closest model yet to the frontier, as breaking news during the show. On the company's charts it scores 50% on Frontier Code 1.1 (Claude Fable 5.1: 50.9, GPT-6 Astra: 53), 73% on DeepSWE (Astra: 74) and 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, while matching Fable at 64% lower cost and headline pricing up to 70% below frontier models. All numbers are company-reported. It ships in Devin and the Devin CLI, free for a month on paid tiers.

50% Frontier Code 1.1 (Fable 5.1: 50.9, Astra: 53)92.8 Terminal-Bench 2.1, top measured score70% lower cost than frontier, per Cognition
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July 2026 2

Cognition
Acquisitions

Acquisition of The Interaction Company (Poke)

Devin-maker Cognition acquires Poke, the AI agent that texts inside Apple Messages

Cognition acquired The Interaction Company of California, maker of Poke — a proactive AI agent that messages users first and was the first AI agent approved to text natively inside Apple Messages, handling tasks like scheduling and flight booking. Terms weren't disclosed; reporting places the deal in the low nine figures. Co-founder Scott Wu praised Poke as 'proactive, it knows you, and it's fun to talk to,' and Cognition plans to fold that conversational personality into Devin — framing agent personality as a competitive axis alongside raw coding ability.

low 9 figures reported deal size (officially undisclosed)
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Cognition
New Models

SWE-1.7

Cognition ships SWE-1.7 at 1000 tokens per second

An RL fine-tune of Moonshot's open Kimi K2.7 base (disclosed up front, unlike SWE-1.5's hidden GLM base), lifting FrontierCode from 30.1% to 42.3% — tied with GPT-5.5 though still behind Opus 4.8. Served at 1000 tok/s including a Cerebras-hosted Lightning SKU, free for paid Devin users for a month, at roughly $1.97 per task. No public API at launch; Devin and Windsurf only.

1000 tok/s Serving speed42.3% FrontierCode 1.1 (base was 30.1%)$1.97 Cost per FrontierCode task
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June 2026 1

Cognition Labs
Products & Apps

Devin Desktop

Cognition rebrands Windsurf into Devin Desktop multi-agent hub

Cognition rebranded Windsurf into Devin Desktop, a multi-agent command center with Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support. The move consolidates Cognition's IDE acquisition into its Devin agent brand as a desktop control surface for running multiple coding agents.

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April 2026 1

March 2026 1

February 2026 1

Cognition Labs
Products & Apps

Devin 2.2

Devin 2.2: computer use, browser, and self-verifying autonomous work

Cognition shipped Devin 2.2, an autonomous coding agent that can use a computer and browser to verify and fix its own work, plus a free public Devin Review workflow for PR review and scheduled/automated sessions. Nader Dabit framed the release as two years of platform maturity converging with stronger models, letting non-engineers fix issues directly by just asking Devin.

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October 2025 2

April 2025 1

Cognition Labs
Products & Apps

Devin 2.0

Devin 2.0 launches with new IDE experience and $20/month entry price

Breaking during the show: Cognition Labs launched Devin 2.0, the second version of its AI software engineer, with a new IDE experience. Crucially, pricing now starts at $20/month, down from the original $500/month tier, making the agent far more accessible.

$20/mo new starting price
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