By Sander Almekinders
Publication Date: 2025-11-14 12:37:00
Cisco acquires NeuralFabric to expand AI capabilities for businesses. The acquisition should help organizations build, train, and deploy specific AI models and Small Language Models (SLMs) within their own infrastructure. NeuralFabric’s technology should primarily ensure that the new AI Canvas has an even more solid foundation.
The future of AI models lies at least as much in small models as in large ones. To make AI truly interesting within organizations, we don’t need another generic model, but rather more specialized models and SLMs. That’s what Cisco is fully committed to, at least.
We have already seen examples of this with the Security Reasoning Model and the Deep Network Model. The first model focuses specifically on security issues and is based on more than 30 years of telemetry from Cisco itself. The second model is an important pillar of AgenticOps developments at Cisco, specifically AI Canvas. We recently wrote an extensive article…
