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Open Models, Cheap AI Security, and Anaconda's Coding Play
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The AI model war may end not with a single winner, but with abundance — Alan Shimel unpacks how "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom" open models are undercutting proprietary AI economics. Cisco open-sources Antares, a family of small AI models that scan codebases for vulnerabilities at a fraction of frontier-model cost — 172x cheaper than GPT-5.5 in Cisco's own benchmarks. And Anaconda acquires Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent used by 3 million-plus developers, expanding well beyond its Python roots into agentic software development. Today's Techstrong Gang panel: Alan Shimel, Kate Scarcella, Sid Nag, Chris Blask.