It’s a challenge Windsurf (formerly Codeium) is taking on with a series of new frontier AI models it calls SWE-1 (software engineer 1) as part of the company’s Wave 9 update.

GPT-4.1 arrives as OpenAI rivals like Google and Anthropic ratchet up efforts to build sophisticated programming models. Google’s recently released Gemini 2.5 Pro, which also has a 1-million ...

In a new paper, OpenAI researchers detail how they developed an LLM benchmark called SWE-Lancer to test how much foundation models can earn from real-life freelance software engineering tasks.

However, SWE-1 appears to fall short of frontier AI models, such as Claude 3.7 Sonnet, on software engineering tasks. Windsurf says its SWE-1-lite and SWE-1-mini models will be available for all ...

Windsurf, the company transforming how software is built, today announced the launch of SWE-1, its first family of proprietary AI models designed to accelerate the entire software engineering ...