INTRODUCING SCOUT 1.0: A NEW SRE MODEL POWERING BITS AI WITH FRONTIER PERFORMANCE AT A FRACTION OF THE COST

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Datadog's Scout 1.0 is an AI model specialized for investigating production issues that powers its Bits AI assistant. The model matches the performance of general-purpose frontier models like GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 at three to eight times lower estimated inference cost. Datadog trained Scout using reinforcement learning on simulations built from historical incidents.