Cisco's open-weight Antares model localizes vulnerabilities, rivals models 100x larger

aminkarbasi · x · 2026-09-30

Cisco chief AI scientist Amin Karbasi introduced Antares, an open-weight small model built specifically for vulnerability localization. It narrows thousands of files to a ranked set of likely culprits, runs locally to keep source code private, and matched or beat models 100x larger in internal and independent benchmarks. Open weights target universities, nonprofits, and public-sector teams.

Original post →

More from Models

Models channel →