From Stealth To Superintelligence, Meet Deep Cogito

A new open-source AI research startup, Deep Cogito, has come out of stealth mode with a bold mission: to rethink how intelligence can be scaled. Founded in San Francisco in June 2024 by former DeepMind and Google researchers Dhruv Malhotra and Drishan Arora, and backed by early investment from South Park Commons, the company has now unveiled its first major release—Cogito v1, a suite of advanced language models ranging from 3B to 70B parameters. Unlike many reasoning-focused models that suffer from high computational demands and latency, Cogito models are engineered to seamlessly shift between a standard mode for speed and a reasoning mode for complex tasks. This flexibility allows them to maintain high performance while remaining efficient—solving a long-standing tradeoff in AI dep