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Cisco releases Antares, open-weight small models for locating code vulnerabilities

Cisco just open-sourced Antares—small models that find code vulnerabilities before attackers do. First two models live on Hugging Face now.

Reporting by SiliconAngle 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Security-focused AI is moving from lab to production. Cisco's open-weight approach democratizes vulnerability detection, creating new expectations for how enterprises embed AI into DevSecOps workflows.

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5 to know

  1. Cisco Foundation AI released Antares family of small language models

  2. Models available as open-weight downloads on Hugging Face

  3. Purpose: pinpointing known security vulnerabilities in codebases

  4. First two models released; family implies additional models planned

  5. Cisco positioning this as security-specific AI initiative

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Publisher excerpt: Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced Antares, a family of small language models built to pinpoint where known security vulnerabilities sit inside a codebase, and released the first two as open-weight downloads on Hugging Face. The models come from Cisco Foundation AI, the company’s research and…
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