Seems like it literally popped up yesterday with the express purpose of building hype for this release.
team member here - we had been working on frontiercode for ~6-7months. timing just lined up
i doubt it, cog wants coding agents to be better because it directly improves their product
they aren't married to a particular lab, most of their usage is their in house model i believe
what incentive does Cognition have for doing this? seems like complete nonsense speculation on your part.
And notable absence of DeepSWE benchmark where they do badly, but somehow a benchmark that was published yesterday is in this announcement.