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Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares , a family of security small language models (SLMs) built for one narrow security task. The task is vulnerability localization. Given a vulnerability description and a repository, find the files containing the flaw. Two models are open-weight and available now on Hugging Face, Antares-350M and Antares-1B . Both are Apache 2.0. Cisco team also shipped the Vulnerability Localization Benchmark (VLoc Bench), a 500-task agentic evaluation, under the same license. The main result is not a new state of the art. It is that a 1B model reaches 0.209 File F1. GPT-5.5 reaches 0.229, and a 753B open-weight model reaches 0.186. The problem Antares is scoped to Software security depends on connecting external vulnerability knowledge to internal source code. That knowledge lives in public databases, advisories, and Common Weakness Enumerations . The code lives in repositories that are large, modular, and dependency-rich. Connecting the t...

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1 , a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 8B activated parameters per token. It supports a context window of up to 1M tokens in both thinking and no-thinking modes. The weights are on Hugging Face under an OpenMDW-1.1 license, and the model is small enough to run on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark . On long-horizon coding benchmarks, Laguna S 2.1 holds its own against models several times its size, including DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max, NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra, and Thinking Machines’ Inkling. Laguna S 2.1 is a scale-up of the Laguna XS family, trained on the same pre-training data as XS 2.1. What is Laguna S 2.1 The model activates roughly 6.8% of its parameters on any given token. All 118B parameters remain resident in memory, but only ~8B route through the network per step. That sparsity is why a mid-size model can behave like a larger one while staying cheap to serve. ...