Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases

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<p>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. The untrained Granite 4.0 checkpoints score near zero under the same protocol, so post-training supplies almost all of the capability. A full 500-task sweep runs in roughly 13 minutes on a single H100 for under a dollar, against $141 for GPT-5.5.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/21/cisco-foundation-ai-releases-antares-350m-and-1b-open-weight-models-that-localize-known-vulnerabilities-inside-real-codebases/">Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com">MarkTechPost</a>.</p>