Cisco releases Antares small models to localize code vulnerabilities
aminkarbasi · x · 2026-07-21
Cisco AI introduced Antares, a family of small language models for locating known vulnerabilities in code.
- Antares-350M and Antares-1B are now available on Hugging Face.
- Cisco claims they can outperform many larger closed and open-weight models at a fraction of the cost.
- The models are small enough to run locally, which helps avoid sending sensitive codebases to the cloud.
- The release is paired with a new Vulnerability Localization Benchmark aimed at speeding up expensive and slow vulnerability triage.
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