--- title: Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, beating Gemini description: Cisco's Foundation AI team has released two small open-weight models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, designed specifically to locate known vulnerabilities in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cisco-s-tiny-open-weight-ai-hunts-bugs-beating-gemini-klhj440ch twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, beating Gemini | daily.dev og:description: Cisco's Foundation AI team has released two small open-weight models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, designed specifically to locate known vulnerabilities in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cisco-s-tiny-open-weight-ai-hunts-bugs-beating-gemini-klhj440ch og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KLhJ440cH.png og:image:alt: Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, beating Gemini og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, beating Gemini **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco's Foundation AI team has released two small open-weight models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, designed specifically to locate known vulnerabilities in codebases. Unlike general-purpose frontier models, Antares works like an investigator — starting from a vulnerability description, searching code, and returning ranked files most likely to contain flaws. On Cisco's 500-task benchmark, Antares-1B reportedly beats Gemini 3 Pro, while the unreleased 3B model outperforms GPT-5.5. Speed and cost are major differentiators: 500 repos scanned in 15 minutes for under $1, versus 5 hours and $100–$150 for frontier models. Because the models are small and run locally, proprietary source code never leaves a company's own machines. Access is gated to academic, nonprofit, and public-sector security teams to prevent misuse, with the most powerful 3B model withheld from public release entirely. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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