The new models perform competitively with GPT-5.5 on a security benchmark but at a much smaller fraction of the cost.
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Cisco has launched a family of small language models called Antares that help to find code vulnerabilities at very low cost.
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Cisco Launches Low-Cost AI Models for Source Code Security
Cisco's Antares Models Cost $1 to Find Security Bugs. GPT-5.5 Costs $141
Cisco bets on small AI for cybersecurity
Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases
Cisco Foundation AI has announced Antares, a small language model (SLM) designed for low-cost vulnerability hunting.
Cisco releases small, specialized language models optimized for CVE hunting. They work 4.5× faster than GPT-5.5 and 141× cheaper.
The company is open-sourcing two small-language models designed just to hunt for software bugs.
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