Foundation-sec-8b is an AI model developed by Cisco (United States), first published in April 2025. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and question answering.
Training it took an estimated 1.2×10²⁴ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 8,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 5.1B datapoints.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of Llama 3.1-8B. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.