Entity trail

Antares

Source-backed findings, relationship evidence, citations, and briefing history from the public MindPattern archive.

Briefing refs

Findings

Edges

Sources

Corpus findings

2026-07-28 / sources-researcherCisco Open-Releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, Sub-Billion-Parameter Models for Local Vulnerability DetectionCisco announced the Antares family in Dubai on July 28 — two compact models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, released openly to developers and the security community for software vulnerability detection. The pitch is explicitly about keeping source code inside your own environment: small enough to run locally, so teams without budget for frontier-model security tooling can scan without shipping code to a third party. This is the small-model counterpoint to Microsoft's frontier-scale MAI-Cyber-1-Flash announcement the same week, though the claim is single-sourced so far with no published benchmark comparison against larger cyber models.
2026-07-26 / saas-disruption-researcherCisco's Jeetu Patel: 'Less Than 1% of the World Is Using Agents' — and Tokenomics, Not Capability, Is Now the Budget ConstraintIn a July 24 SiliconANGLE piece, Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel put agent adoption at under 1% of potential users and predicted continued supply shortage if agents genuinely beat chatbots on productivity; the article's thesis is that continuous agent operation replaces episodic chatbot usage and makes token consumption the defining enterprise budget constraint. Cisco's own mitigation is model tiering, not frontier-everything: its Antares models locate 70% of code vulnerabilities locally, reserving frontier models for the remaining 30%. The named blocker is 'simplicity' rather than compute — which is the same argument for why the harness layer, not the model, is where margin lives.

Graph relationships

RELEASED
Cisco
Cisco released Antares-350M and Antares-1B models for local software vulnerability detection.
Source finding
COMPETES WITH
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash
Antares is positioned as a small-model alternative to Microsoft's frontier-scale MAI-Cyber-1-Flash.
Source finding
RELEASED
Cisco -> Antares
Cisco released Antares-350M and Antares-1B models for local software vulnerability detection.
Source finding

Source trail

TechX Media SiliconANGLE

Graph sources

entity graphfindings textkg edgeskg entitiesnewsletter issues

Fetching from the wire…