Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks

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?