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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)

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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)

Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsBringing macOS to Devin Today, we're launching macOS support for Devin, extending Devin's autonomous cloud development workflows to iOS apps, native macOS applications, and any project that depends on Apple's development tools.

September 15
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGoverning AI agents at scale with BlackRock We’re introducing Devin Plugins, which give enterprises a way to manage the context and capabilities their agents use at scale.

September 9
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGPT-6 Astra is now available in Devin OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. It is available now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, and is part of the model mixture in Devin Cloud.

September 3
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsFable 5.1 in Devin and Why It’s Cheaper than Opus 5 Introducing Fable 5.1 in Devin. Fable-level intelligence is now 54% cheaper – making it even cheaper than Opus – due to a change in caching.

August 31
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsHow Devin rebuilt its renderer The largest Devin sessions took 20+ seconds to load and crawled afterwards. We built a new chat renderer — skeleton outlines, island loading, and scroll anchoring — so even sessions with hundreds of thousands of events…

August 25
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGPT-5.6 Sol: Now even cheaper in Devin OpenAI is lowering GPT-5.6 Sol list prices to $4/$20 per 1M tokens, and the 70% discount we announced still applies on top through October 3, 2026.

August 21
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsDevin's Slack Etiquette How we refined Devin's behavior in Slack over the past year, across prompts, Devin's harness, and our usage of the Slack API.

August 20
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGPT-5.6 Sol: 70% off in Devin GPT-5.6 Sol is available at a 70% discount on Devin Desktop and Devin CLI through October 3, 2026.

August 18
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGemini 3.7 Flash is now available in Devin Gemini 3.7 Flash is now live in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, reaching Claude Sonnet 5-level performance at less than half the cost. Available at a 50% discount for two weeks.

August 13
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGrok 4.6 is now available in Devin Grok 4.6 is now live in Devin Desktop and the Devin CLI, marking a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 on FrontierCode 1.1.

August 12
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsIntroducing Stacked PRs in Devin Devin now breaks large tasks into stacks of small, independently reviewable PRs — handling rebasing, conflict resolution, and CI verification for you.

July 30
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsKimi K3 is now available in Devin Kimi K3 is now live in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI. Optimized for long horizon agentic coding, it approaches frontier-level FrontierCode 1.1 performance.

July 27
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsClaude Opus 5 is now available in Devin Claude Opus 5 is now live in Devin Desktop, Devin CLI, and Devin Cloud's mode mix, approaching Fable-level performance at half the cost.

July 23
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsIntroducing Devin Outposts Give Devin the ability to run on any machine.

July 21
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsGPT-5.6 models are now available in Devin GPT-5.6 models are now live in Devin. These models stand out for combining top-tier coding-agent performance with very strong token/cost efficiency.

July 9
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsUpdate on Claude Fable 5 in Devin Claude Fable 5 is now available in Devin Cloud’s Ultra agent, Devin Desktop, and Devin CLI.

July 1
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsAgentic MapReduce A new architecture from Cognition for scaling full-codebase reasoning with distributed agents

July 1
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsEvaluating Security Swarm How we built an eval of real, recent vulnerabilities to measure Security Swarm — and why it finds more bugs at lower cost than any tool we tested.

July 1
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsClaude Sonnet 5 is now available in Devin Claude Sonnet 5 is now live in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, pairing frontier-level coding performance with a more affordable price point.

June 30
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsKimi K2.7 and GLM 5.2 Now Available in Devin Desktop and CLI Kimi K2.7 and GLM 5.2 are now available in Devin Desktop and CLI, with strong FrontierCode Extended scores and no quota use until July 5.

June 24
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsIntroducing Security in Devin Review Every pull request in Devin Review now gets a security review. Devin catches auth bypasses and logic flaws that pattern-matching scanners miss.

June 18
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsWindsurf is now Devin Desktop The next generation of Windsurf: a full IDE with the Agent Command Center built in for managing fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface.

June 2
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsOpus 4.7 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf Claude Opus 4.7 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf with the full intelligence of Opus 4.7 and ~2.5x higher output speeds.

May 12
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Cognition (Devin & Windsurf)ToolsFast and Comprehensive Code Review, Now in Windsurf Devin Review and Quick Review bring verification into the same workspace where you write code.

May 6