Capital & commercial trajectory
Funding rounds and reported revenue
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Current snapshot
Lifecycle position
Research
Early research & prototypes
Preview
Limited access & evaluation
Growth
Public access & scaling
Deployment
Production & at scale
Current position
Founded
1984
Watch cadence
Weekdays
Last verified
2026-07-23
Focus
AI-powered networking, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and open security models
Latest move
Released Antares-350M and Antares-1B as open-weight vulnerability-localization models on July 21, 2026, targeting efficient local analysis of sensitive codebases.
Category and subcategory context
Competitive context
Recent models
Products
Open weights
Yes
API access
No
Watch level
Weekdays
Signals
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Cisco sits in the AI stack
Model layer
2 tracked model families
Access layer
Self-hostable weights
Market layer
Vertical + Enterprise
Public product surface
Stack signals
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Recent coverage of Cisco
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