Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI

Cisco has released two small, open-weight models (Antares-350M and Antares-1B) for local vulnerability detection in codebases, emphasizing speed, cost-efficiency, and gated access for vetted users; the company says a larger 3B model will be tightly controlled. The article describes model design, performance comparisons to larger models, and Cisco's rationale for local deployment and restricted distribution rather than reporting any active exploitation or incident.