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Cisco completes NeuralFabric acquisition

Expanding Cisco’s deep bench of AI engineering talent, complementing existing capabilities, and accelerating innovation across Cisco’s AI Software and Platforms.

Overview

SAN JOSE, Calif. – On November 21, 2025 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)  

Today, Cisco has completed the acquisition of NeuralFabric Corp., a privately held enterprise AI platform company headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

NeuralFabric has developed an end-to-end Generative AI platform that leverages an organization’s proprietary data to build and manage domain-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) for enterprise use cases.

NeuralFabric’s platform enables enterprises to train SLMs on confidential and proprietary internal data sources and enables them to choose the training data for each SLM based on specific needs. NeuralFabric’s platform can deploy the resulting models across SaaS and on-premise environments, offering flexibility and increased control for AI workloads.

FAQs

Q: What is Cisco announcing?

A: Today, November 21, 2025, Cisco has completed the acquisition of NeuralFabric Corp., a privately held enterprise AI software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. 

Q: Why did Cisco choose NeuralFabric?

A: NeuralFabric will contribute to the expansion of Cisco’s AI product and engineering talent, supporting the continued evolution of Cisco’s AI-native software and platforms. 

Q: Why is now the right time to acquire NeuralFabric?

A: Cisco will incorporate NeuralFabric’s capabilities across the Cisco portfolio, further expanding our offerings to meet the growing demands of our customers. 

Customer Experience

NeuralFabric customers should continue to use the existing process for support on installed NeuralFabric products. Cisco will notify you in advance of any change to the support process.

Cisco customers should continue to use the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) for technical support on Cisco products. For more information about opening a technical support case and for regional TAC telephone numbers, refer to Cisco Worldwide Support Contacts.

Customers and Partners

NeuralFabric Customers and Partners: 

If you are an existing customer or partner of NeuralFabric and have questions about your product or service, please continue to contact your existing NeuralFabric representative.

Cisco Customers and Partners: 

If you are an existing customer or partner of Cisco and have questions about your product or services, please continue to contact your existing Cisco representative.

Better Together

Cisco + NeuralFabric will help accelerate Cisco AI Canvas by enabling customers to more easily build, train, and deploy domain-specific SLMs using their own proprietary data, whether on-premise or in the cloud.