Local Shield: Belgium’s Aikido Releases Open AI Model for B2B Cyber Defense

Corporations are tired of "leaking" their source code into foreign clouds. On September 21, 2026, Belgian company Aikido Security presented `Altar`—a highly specialized open-weight model designed for autonomous software vulnerability discovery.

The key value of the product is total independence from Big Tech APIs (OpenAI, Google). The model is deployed locally (on-premise) in isolated company circuits, even without internet access. The macroeconomic message is clear: amid scandals involving hacked AI agents, the enterprise sector refuses to trust cloud SaaS solutions with its security. The cybersecurity market is shifting to a paradigm of sovereign AI assistants. B2B clients are willing to pay to deploy their own GPU servers, just to guarantee that their trade secrets and system architecture will not become part of the training data for foreign hyperscalers.

Source: Aikido Security / Reuters