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Security researchers and developers that need efficient open-weight AI models to locate known software vulnerabilities within codebases
About Antares
Antares is a family of open-weight security small language models purpose-built to localize known vulnerabilities inside large codebases. Antares-350M and Antares-1B are compact enough to run locally or on premises, helping teams keep proprietary source code inside their environment while reducing inference cost and runtime. Starting from a vulnerability description, advisory, or CWE category, the model follows an iterative investigation process similar to a human analyst, it searches for relevant code patterns, reads candidate files, incorporates new evidence, changes direction when a path is unproductive, and narrows the search to the files most likely to contain the weakness. Antares returns a ranked list of potentially vulnerable source files together with the terminal exploration trace that produced the result, making findings easier to review and prioritize.
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Cisco
Founded: 1984
United States
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