A vendor offers to pay up to $10M if its agent underdelivers

Claim

Cognition offered to foot a customer's bill up to $10 million if Devin underdelivers, while an ICML paper showed transformers can share query-key-value projections to shrink the KV cache by up to 96.9% for on-device inference.

Reported metric: $10M guarantee / -96.9% KV cache

Reporting date: 2026-06-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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