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Deep Cogito

Model developer · Research lab · San Francisco, California

Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI company that post-trains open-weight language models, the Cogito series, on base models from other developers. It describes its training approach as Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA), a form of iterative self-improvement.145

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Key facts

Legal name
Deep Cogito Inc.2
Ownership
Privately held
Legal form
Corporation incorporated in Delaware in 2024, per its SEC Form D filing.2
Headquarters
San Francisco, California12
Founded
Unknown
Sectors
Open models, Research

What is and isn’t public

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Deep Cogito publishes Cogito model weights on Hugging Face without access gating, under the MIT License for DeepSeek-based releases and under Meta's Llama community licenses for Llama-based releases. Its announcements describe training at a high level; training code and training data were not found as public releases. This catalog assesses openness per release.785

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Model families (1)

Model releases (2)

  • Cogito v2 Preview Llama 405BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
  • Cogito v2.1 671BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight

Notable documented facts

  • The Cogito v2.1 announcement lists API access through third-party platforms (OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, Together AI, Ollama cloud, Baseten, RunPod), local use through Ollama or Unsloth, and a free web chat at chat.deepcogito.com that Deep Cogito says does not store chats.5
  • Cogito releases have been built from Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek base checkpoints released by other developers; Deep Cogito describes running the post-training in-house.3456

U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Deep Cogito's homepage says it is headquartered in San Francisco, and its April 2026 SEC Form D filing lists Deep Cogito Inc., a Delaware corporation, with its principal place of business in San Francisco, California.12

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    Deep Cogito (external site: deepcogito.com)

    Deep Cogito · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    Deep Cogito Inc. Form D/A (accession 0002128259-26-000002) (external site: sec.gov)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Filing · published Apr 24, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  3. 3.
    Cogito v1 Preview (external site: deepcogito.com)

    Deep Cogito · Announcement · published Apr 8, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  4. 4.
    Cogito v2 Preview: From Inference-time Search to Self-Improvement (external site: deepcogito.com)

    Deep Cogito · Announcement · published Jul 31, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    Cogito v2.1 (external site: deepcogito.com)

    Deep Cogito · Announcement · published Nov 19, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
    DeepCogito/cogito-v2 README (external site: github.com)

    Deep Cogito · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  7. 7.
    deepcogito/cogito-671b-v2.1 model card (external site: huggingface.co)

    Deep Cogito · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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