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Foundation AI in July: New Models, Benchmarks, and Security Research

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July was an Antares month, with a parallel thread on smarter evaluation. Here's what we shipped. Antares (technical report). A family of compact, open-weight models (350M, 1B, and 3B) built for one job: agentic vulnerability localization. Given...

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  1. 2026-08-19 21:59 · Cisco AI Blog
    Foundation AI in July: New Models, Benchmarks, and Security Research

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