Introducing Cisco Model Foundry: Bringing AI to our partners

A year ago, the answer to “which model should we use?” was simple: whichever frontier model topped the leaderboard that week. Then open models caught up. They cost a fraction as much, you could run them where you wanted, and your data stayed yours. Plenty of teams made the switch. Then they pointed those models at real work. An operator reports that R2 lost every route from R1, but ping across the link still works. A security team needs to find the three files in a million-line codebase most likely to hold a vulnerability. An observability team needs to spot the one interface that matters in a week of telemetry. This is where general-purpose models, open or closed, start to struggle. We think the next leap comes from a model that already knows the domain and then learns your customer. That second…