Cogent's VR-1.1 repairs 57.9% of LiveCVEBench tasks in company run

Vineet Edupuganti and Geng Sng's Cogent Security reports that VR-1.1 repaired 57.9% of 190 LiveCVEBench tasks, 12.6 percentage points ahead of Claude Code and Codex in its own run.

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AI-driven disclosure is producing vulnerabilities faster than engineers can safely patch them, and Cogent's founders are betting the scarce step is a trustworthy fix.

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Vineet Edupuganti and Geng Sng built Cogent Security around a bottleneck they watched at Abnormal Security: finding vulnerabilities was getting faster, and fixing them was not. On November 3rd, 2026, Cogent released VR-1.1, a version of its security reasoning model tuned for repair, and reported in Cogent's LiveCVEBench research post that it fixed 57.9% of 190 tasks, compared with 45.3% for both Claude Code and Codex.…

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