Organization

Deep Cogito

Deep Cogito is an AI model developer and research lab headquartered in San Francisco, California1 2. This catalog lists 2 open model releases from Deep Cogito, under licenses including the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement and the MIT License.

Documented roles: Model developer · Research lab

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.1 4 5

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026

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Key facts

Website: deepcogito.com (external site: deepcogito.com)
Legal name: Deep Cogito Inc.2
Ownership (separate from openness): Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Corporation incorporated in Delaware in 2024, per its SEC Form D filing.2
Headquarters: San Francisco, California1 2
Founded: Unknown
Sectors: Open models, Research
Careers: Careers page (external site: deepcogito.com)

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.7 8 5

Products

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Cataloged artifacts

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Model families (1)

CogitoModel family

Model releases (2)

Cogito v2 Preview Llama 405BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Cogito v2.1 671BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): 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.3 4 5 6

What this catalog does not know

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Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
Products: none documented in this record.

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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.1 2

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

1.
Deep Cogito (external site: deepcogito.com)
Deep Cogito · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
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.
Cogito v1 Preview (external site: deepcogito.com)
Deep Cogito · Announcement · published Apr 8, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
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.
Cogito v2.1 (external site: deepcogito.com)
Deep Cogito · Announcement · published Nov 19, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
DeepCogito/cogito-v2 README (external site: github.com)
Deep Cogito · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
deepcogito/cogito-671b-v2.1 model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Deep Cogito · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
deepcogito/cogito-v2-preview-llama-405B model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Deep Cogito · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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@misc{usasi_deep_cogito,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Deep Cogito},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/deep-cogito/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
}

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