Ethics & SecuritySeptember 25, 2026
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Aikido squeezes 753B model onto one node
Aikido ships Altar-1: an open security model pruned from GLM-5.3 down to 328 GB.
#Security#Open-Weight#Model Compression#Pentesting#GLM

š„ What happened
Aikido Security released Altar-1, an open-weight security model built on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. Through 4-bit quantization and REAP expert pruning, it shrinks from 1,506 GB to 328 GB ā a 78 percent reduction.
š” Why it matters
The model runs on a single node with 4x H200 GPUs and fits air-gapped networks. On Aikido's internal CVE benchmark, it retains 92 percent of the parent's hit rate ā with only a 5.2-point recall drop.
ā” Our take
Finally, a security model that doesn't ship customer data halfway around the world. Anyone still using closed-source APIs for pentesting has been asleep at the compliance wheel.
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