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Deep Cogito
Deep Cogito is a privately held, early-stage AI lab founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It releases open-weights models under the MIT and Llama Community licences, making weights freely downloadable, but its US incorporation means it is fully CLOUD Act and FISA 702 exposed — a material consideration for EU enterprises in regulated sectors. The company has published a basic privacy policy that explicitly prohibits training on user inputs and acknowledges EU/UK data subject rights, but does not name a DPO, does not offer a GDPR DPA, relies on 'legitimate interests' rather than SCCs for international transfers, and has no published EU AI Act compliance posture or security certifications.
AI Act 54/100US CLOUD Act exposure
Stav AI Act verdict
jurisdictionhigh
Deep Cogito is incorporated in California, USA — it is fully exposed to the CLOUD Act and FISA Section 702. US authorities can compel access to data processed by the company or by US-based subprocessors (Fireworks AI, Together AI, Baseten, RunPod). The current Stav record incorrectly marks CLOUD Act exposure as false.
privacyhigh
No GDPR Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available. International data transfers to the US and India are acknowledged but no transfer mechanism (SCCs, adequacy) is named. No DPO is designated and no EU representative is identified — all of which are requirements for non-EEA controllers offering services to EU data subjects.
privacymedium
Data may be transferred to and processed in India in addition to the US. India does not have EU adequacy status. The privacy policy acknowledges this but provides no legal safeguard for EU residents.
compliancemedium
No EU AI Act compliance statement, model transparency documentation meeting Article 53 standards, or GPAI Code of Practice engagement has been found. The 671B MoE flagship models may warrant systemic risk assessment but no self-declaration has been made.
securitymedium
No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent security certification is published. No bug bounty programme, responsible disclosure policy, or published penetration testing results exist. Security posture relies solely on 'reasonable technical and organisational measures' per the privacy policy.
governancemedium
Very small team (3 employees per PitchBook 2025) with no formal advisory board, ethics board, or governance structure disclosed. Model maintenance continuity and regulatory responsiveness are uncertain for an organisation of this size.
compliancelow
Cogito v2 models are fine-tuned on DeepSeek base weights (a Chinese-origin model family). While the fine-tuned derivative is MIT-licensed and US-controlled, EU deployers in regulated sectors may need to consider the upstream base model provenance in their own supply chain assessments.
Stav AI Act assessment
Editorial assessment, not legal advice. Stav's risk ratings, scores, and verdicts are our own analysis of publicly available information and may be incomplete or out of date. Verify independently before making compliance or procurement decisions.
Safeguards in place
- transparencyUnknown
Privacy policy explicitly and prominently states that user inputs are never used to train models — a clear and enforceable commitment that reduces inference-side data risk.
- transparencyUnknown
All models released as open weights under permissive licences (Llama Community for v1; MIT for v2/v2.1), enabling on-premises deployment without reliance on Deep Cogito's infrastructure.
- transparencyUnknown
Company has publicly committed to open-sourcing all models it creates, with a stated policy on its research page: 'All models we create will be open sourced.'
- complianceUnknown
Privacy policy and Terms of Service are publicly available, recently updated (May 12, 2026), and written in accessible plain language. EU/UK data subject rights are explicitly acknowledged.
- stabilityUnknown
Backed by Benchmark (top-tier US VC), with partner Eric Vishria on the board — providing a degree of institutional oversight and financial stability for an early-stage lab.
- communityUnknown
Active model development pace: two major generations (v1 and v2) shipped in 2025 with a v2.1 update in November 2025, demonstrating continued investment and rapid iteration.
- transparencyUnknown
No known controversies, sanctions, government ties, or export control issues. Founders have verifiable professional histories at Google and Google DeepMind.
Published safeguards & certifications
Privacy posture
- Privacy policy
- https://www.deepcogito.com/privacy
- Flagged issues
- 2
- No GDPR Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available. International data transfers to the US and India are acknowledged but no transfer mechanism (SCCs, adequacy) is named. No DPO is designated and no EU representative is identified — all of which are requirements for non-EEA controllers offering services to EU data subjects.high
- Data may be transferred to and processed in India in addition to the US. India does not have EU adequacy status. The privacy policy acknowledges this but provides no legal safeguard for EU residents.medium
Privacy policy review
Identity & profile
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Open-weights policy
- Mixed
- Models in catalogue
- 0
- HuggingFace
- deepcogito · 559 followers
- HF published
- 12 models · 0 datasets · 0 papers
Creator profile
CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE ON TRAINING
Deep Cogito is a United States entity. Training data and weights produced under United States-jurisdiction are covered by the CLOUD Act.
Exposed on training. Inference is unaffected when hosted on Stav infrastructure inside the EEA.
COMPLIANCE & TRUST
Stav’s creator score.
Stav compliance has not yet scored Deep Cogito. Scores are published once the policy review and infrastructure assessment complete.
Findings
Findings from privacy & terms
Citations gathered when the Compliance Curator last reviewed this creator’s public-facing documents. Grouped by source so the picture stays auditable.
venturebeat.com · 2 citations
“This came after a $13 million seed funding round that closed in November 2024 and was led by Benchmark, with Benchmark’s Eric Vishria joining the comp...”
“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 s...”
bizprofile.net · 1 citation
Editorial sources
- Deep Cogito Emerges from Stealth with Hybrid AI Models Capable of Reasoning on Demand
Deep Cogito, a new AI startup founded by Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malhotra, has launched from stealth with a family of hybrid models called Cogito 1 th...
- Deep Cogito Unveils Hybrid AI Models | DigitrendZ
“Looking ahead, we are exploring additional post-training methods for self-improvement.” · According to California State filings, San Francisco-based ...
- Deep Cogito goes big, releasing 4 new open source hybrid reasoning models with self-improving 'intuition' | VentureBeat
This came after a $13 million seed funding round that closed in November 2024 and was led by Benchmark, with Benchmark’s Eric Vishria joining the comp...
- Deep Cogito - Companies - South Park Commons
Know more about Deep Cogito, a portfolio company of South Park Commons.
- Deep Cogito Inc. San Francisco, CA - filing information
Deep Cogito Inc. is a San Francisco, CA based company incorporated on June 24, 2024. Filing details extracted from the California Secretary of State&#...
- New open source AI company Deep Cogito releases first models and they're already topping the charts | VentureBeat
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 s...
Reference citations
- Deep Cogito Emerges from Stealth with Hybrid AI Models Capable of Reasoning on Demand
Deep Cogito, a new AI startup founded by Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malhotra, has launched from stealth with a family of hybrid models called Cogito 1 th...
- Deep Cogito Unveils Hybrid AI Models | DigitrendZ
“Looking ahead, we are exploring additional post-training methods for self-improvement.” · According to California State filings, San Francisco-based ...
- Deep Cogito goes big, releasing 4 new open source hybrid reasoning models with self-improving 'intuition' | VentureBeat
This came after a $13 million seed funding round that closed in November 2024 and was led by Benchmark, with Benchmark’s Eric Vishria joining the comp...
- Deep Cogito - Companies - South Park Commons
Know more about Deep Cogito, a portfolio company of South Park Commons.
- Deep Cogito Inc. San Francisco, CA - filing information
Deep Cogito Inc. is a San Francisco, CA based company incorporated on June 24, 2024. Filing details extracted from the California Secretary of State&#...
- New open source AI company Deep Cogito releases first models and they're already topping the charts | VentureBeat
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 s...