New open source AI company Deep Cogito releases first models and they’re already topping the charts.

Deep Cogito, a new AI research startup based in San Francisco, officially emerged from stealth today with Cogito v1, a new line of open source large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned from Meta’s Llama 3.2 and equipped with hybrid reasoning capabilities — the ability to answer quickly and immediately, or “self-reflect” like OpenAI’s “o” series and DeepSeek R1.

The company aims to push the boundaries of AI beyond current human-overseer limitations by enabling models to iteratively refine and internalize their own improved reasoning strategies. It’s ultimately on a quest toward developing superintelligence — AI smarter than all humans in all domains — yet the company says that “All models we create will be open sourced.”

Deep Cogito’s CEO and co-founder Drishan Arora — a former Senior Software Engineer at Google who says he led the large language model (LLM) modeling for Google’s generative search product —also said in a post on X they are “the strongest open models at their scale – including those from LLaMA, DeepSeek, and Qwen.”

The initial model lineup includes five base sizes: 3 billion, 8 billion, 14 billion, 32 billion, and 70 billion parameters, available now on AI code sharing community Hugging Face, Ollama and through application programming interfaces (API) on Fireworks and Together AI.

They’re available under the Llama licensing terms which allows for commercial usage — so third-party enterprises could put them to work in paid products — up to 700 million monthly users, at which point they need to obtain a paid license from Meta.

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