CISCO FOUNDATION AI RELEASES ANTARES: 350M AND 1B OPEN-WEIGHT MODELS THAT LOCALIZE KNOWN VULNERABILITIES INSIDE REAL CODEBASES
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Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of small language models trained to pinpoint where known vulnerabilities live inside a codebase. Antares-1B reaches 0.209 File F1 on the new Vulnerability Localization Benchmark, above GLM-5.2 at 753B parameters and Gemini 3 Pro.
According to MarkTechPost, Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of small language models trained to pinpoint where known vulnerabilities live inside a codebase.
The available RSS description adds: Antares-1B reaches 0.209 File F1 on the new Vulnerability Localization Benchmark, above GLM-5.2 at 753B parameters and Gemini 3 Pro.
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- MarkTechPost: Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of small language models trained to pinpoint where known vulnerabilities live inside a codebase.
- MarkTechPost: Antares-1B reaches 0.209 File F1 on the new Vulnerability Localization Benchmark, above GLM-5.2 at 753B parameters and Gemini 3 Pro.
- MarkTechPost: The untrained Granite 4.0 checkpoints score near zero under the same protocol, so post-training supplies almost all of the capability.
- MarkTechPost: A full 500-task sweep runs in roughly 13 minutes on a single H100 for under a dollar, against $141 for GPT-5.5.
- MarkTechPost: The post Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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- 22/07/2026, 01:01 RELATED COVERAGE POOLSIDE RELEASES LAGUNA S 2.1, AN OPEN-WEIGHT AGENTIC CODING MODEL PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT CLASS ON SWE-BENCH MULTILINGUAL (MarkTechPost • 9 hrs ago) [Story Intel]
- 22/07/2026, 07:27 PRIMARY FEED CISCO FOUNDATION AI RELEASES ANTARES: 350M AND 1B OPEN-WEIGHT MODELS THAT LOCALIZE KNOWN VULNERABILITIES INSIDE REAL CODEBASES (MarkTechPost • 2 hrs ago) [Story Intel]
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