OpenAI unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative focused on AI-assisted vulnerability detection and software defense.
CEO Sam Altman said AI is becoming increasingly capable at cybersecurity and that OpenAI wants to help companies secure systems before attacks occur.
The announcement comes as Google, Anthropic, and other AI companies expand into cybersecurity tools and services.
OpenAI on Monday launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at helping developers and security teams identify vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and secure software faster using artificial intelligence.
The announcement underscores a broadening shift as AI companies are increasingly pushing into cybersecurity as advanced models improve at analyzing code, finding software weaknesses, and automating technical tasks.
In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Daybreak an “effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software.”
“AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we’d like to start working with as many companies as possible now to help them continuously secure themselves,” Altman wrote.
According to OpenAI, Daybreak combines the company’s AI models with Codex, its coding-focused agentic system, to help security teams review code, analyze dependencies, model threats, validate patches, and investigate unfamiliar systems. The company said the goal is to reduce the time between identifying a vulnerability and fixing it.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.
Daybreak comes as cybersecurity researchers and industry experts warn about the threat of AI-powered cyberattacks after the launch of Claude Mythos last month. Using Mythos, Firefox browser developer Mozilla said it was able to find 271 unknown vulnerabilities in the browser.
“AI can now help defenders reason across codebases, identify subtle vulnerabilities, validate fixes, analyze unfamiliar systems, and move from discovery to…
OpenAI unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative focused on AI-assisted vulnerability detection and software defense.
CEO Sam Altman said AI is becoming increasingly capable at cybersecurity and that OpenAI wants to help companies secure systems before attacks occur.
The announcement comes as Google, Anthropic, and other AI companies expand into cybersecurity tools and services.
OpenAI on Monday launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at helping developers and security teams identify vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and secure software faster using artificial intelligence.
The announcement underscores a broadening shift as AI companies are increasingly pushing into cybersecurity as advanced models improve at analyzing code, finding software weaknesses, and automating technical tasks.
In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Daybreak an “effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software.”
“AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we’d like to start working with as many companies as possible now to help them continuously secure themselves,” Altman wrote.
According to OpenAI, Daybreak combines the company’s AI models with Codex, its coding-focused agentic system, to help security teams review code, analyze dependencies, model threats, validate patches, and investigate unfamiliar systems. The company said the goal is to reduce the time between identifying a vulnerability and fixing it.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.
Daybreak comes as cybersecurity researchers and industry experts warn about the threat of AI-powered cyberattacks after the launch of Claude Mythos last month. Using Mythos, Firefox browser developer Mozilla said it was able to find 271 unknown vulnerabilities in the browser.
“AI can now help defenders reason across codebases, identify subtle vulnerabilities, validate fixes, analyze unfamiliar systems, and move from discovery to…
