Foundation AI

Today, we’re announcing a new organization at Cisco Security with a distinct mission. The team is called Foundation AI, and its mission is to create transformational AI technology for cybersecurity applications. The team has been hard at work for the past six months, since the acquisition of Robust Intelligence, on which it is based. In this post, we’ll describe the problem Foundation AI seeks to solve, guiding principles, and share some of the products it…

Cisco is proud to mark a major milestone in its AI journey. Our newly launched Foundation AI group—formed to bring world-class, domain-specific AI infrastructure to the cybersecurity space—is proud to introduce its first release: Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B (Foundation-sec-8b), an 8-billion parameter, open-weight Large Language Model (LLM) purpose-built for security. This model combines deep domain expertise with the flexibility and control needed for secure, real-world deployment. With Foundation-sec-8B, teams can build, fine-tune, and deploy AI-native workflows across the…