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Cisco's Antares Models Find Security Bugs for $1 vs GPT-5.5's $141
Cisco released two open-weight models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, designed to find security vulnerabilities in codebases. On a 500-entry dataset, Antares scanned repos in about an hour for under $1, while GPT-5.5 took 4.5 hours and cost $141. Both run locally, keeping sensitive code on hardware.
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The efficiency gap highlights a growing trend: specialized, cheap models can outperform expensive frontier models for narrow tasks, challenging the assumption that bigger is always better.
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