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SWE-1.7 nears GPT-5.5 and Opus-level performance

Cognition has released SWE-1.7, an AI agent that achieves results on par with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus on software development tasks. The model shows significant improvements in code generation and debugging compared to earlier versions.

WHY IT MATTERS

This marks continued progress in agent technology for software development, and demonstrates that specialized models can compete with or approach the performance of the largest generalist models on critical tasks.

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