Organization
Cisco
Cisco is a chip designer and enterprise software company headquartered in San Jose, California1. No open models or tools from Cisco are in this catalog yet; its documented products are listed below.
Documented roles: Chip designer · Enterprise software
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, collaboration, and observability hardware and software. Its AI-related offerings include Silicon One networking silicon for AI data center networks, the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA reference design, and Cisco AI Defense for securing AI applications and models.1234
Using this organization’s offerings
The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.
Key facts
- Legal name
- Cisco Systems, Inc.1
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Publicly traded
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation (incorporated in California in 1984 and reincorporated in Delaware in 2021)1
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California1
- Founded
- 19841
- Sectors
- Enterprise, Chips
What is and isn’t public
Cisco's Foundation AI team has released open-weight models such as Foundation-Sec-8B, which is derived from Meta's Llama-3.1-8B. This catalog has not assessed those releases.5
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Silicon One (external site: cisco.com) | Hardware | Programmable routing and switching silicon architecture used in Cisco routers and switches for AI scale-out networks in data centers and between sites, for hyperscalers, service providers, and enterprises.213 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA (external site: cisco.com) | Hardware | Modular reference design built from Cisco AI PODs, NVIDIA-based GPU servers, Cisco or NVIDIA Spectrum-X data center switching, Cisco security products, and Splunk Observability; offered as pre-validated PODs with Cisco Validated Designs or as build-your-own configurations.3 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Cisco AI Defense (external site: cisco.com) | Enterprise software | Security product for AI applications and models that discovers AI assets in use, red-teams AI models, manages AI supply chain risk for models and files, and applies runtime guardrails to production AI applications.41 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
No artifact records in this catalog list Cisco. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.
Notable documented facts
- Foundation AI at Cisco published Foundation-Sec-8B, an open-weight language model for cybersecurity, on Hugging Face on April 28, 2025. The model card says it was built by continued pretraining of Meta's Llama-3.1-8B on cybersecurity text and lists the Apache 2.0 license.5
In the news
NVIDIA and Cisco announce plans for USFP, a pluggable optics form factor, and an open specification
On October 12, 2026 NVIDIA and Cisco announced plans for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), an optical module form factor designed for 400Gb/s-per-lane electrical signals. The companies say they plan to create an open industry specification for USFP through an upcoming community-led multi-source project, and that they are working with TE Connectivity and Amphenol on USFP cages, connectors, and modules. The release describes the first USFP-based transceivers as planned and gives no availability date; the specification has not yet been published.
NVIDIA and inaugural partners launch the Open Secure AI Alliance for open AI security tools
NVIDIA announced the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, 2026, describing it as an effort to develop and share open technologies, techniques and tools to safeguard software and AI agents. The inaugural partners NVIDIA lists include Cisco, Dell Technologies, HPE, Intel, Anyscale, Crusoe, Fireworks AI and the Linux Foundation, and NVIDIA says the alliance builds on the Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative and OpenSSF community work. NVIDIA says it is contributing open models, model weights, data and agent harness research, and that its open-source NVIDIA Labs Object-Oriented Agent (NOOA) research framework is available on GitHub. NVIDIA also names HPE's contributions to the SPIFFE/SPIRE identity framework among the alliance's work.
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, open-weight models for locating vulnerable code
Cisco introduced Antares on July 21, 2026, a family of security-focused small language models for finding which source files in a codebase are likely to contain a known vulnerability, and released Antares-350M and Antares-1B as open-weight models on Hugging Face. Cisco says the models start from a vulnerability description, search and read files in a repository, and output a ranked list of likely files along with the terminal exploration trace, and that they are not meant to replace the broader application security toolchain. The Antares-1B model card lists the Apache 2.0 license and says the model is built on IBM Granite 4.0 1B; downloading it requires accepting gated-access terms on Hugging Face. Cisco says an Antares-3B model is coming soon. USASI has not tested the models.
What this catalog does not know
- Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
- Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with principal executive offices in San Jose, California, per the cover page of its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026.1
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USASI. (2026, September 29). Cisco. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/cisco/
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