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Cognition's SWE-2 coding model nears frontier AI performance at lower cost

Provider of Kimi K3 base model

Cognition released SWE-2, a coding model that scored 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 50.0 on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, within one point of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1. Cognition claims SWE-2 costs 64% less than Fable 5.1 for that performance.

Updated 2 days ago

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max as open weights, undercutting US model pricing

New Capabilities

Chief open-weight rival

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max weights landed on Hugging Face on August 12, nine days after the API launch. The download is smaller than promised: it skips the 1-million-token context and image input of the hosted model, and the 27-billion-parameter version has not shipped.

Updated Aug 14