Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement learning fine-tune of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash, released on Hugging Face under the MIT license. Is it deployable? Yes, the MIT weights serve on vLLM, SGLang or Transformers, but BF16 needs roughly 640 GB of GPU memory. […]
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