Cisco says two small open security models beat GPT-5.5 on vulnerability detection cost
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-23
- Cisco has released two small open-source cybersecurity models and claims they can detect about 150x more vulnerabilities per dollar than large AI agents in its own tests.
- The company says the models are designed for vulnerability detection, not general-purpose chat, and are meant to make security workflows cheaper and more practical.
- The article frames this as a bet that specialized, compact models can outperform large frontier systems on narrow security tasks when cost is the constraint.
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