Anthropic will use its biggest, baddest AI model to protect against cyberattacks

Anthropic said Tuesday that it is sharing a preview version of its upcoming AI model in a new cybersecurity initiative with a coalition of tech companies to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software infrastructure.

The Project Glasswing initiative includes tech stalwarts like Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks. Anthropic said the partners will use the model for defensive security work and distribute their findings within the industry at large. The company is also extending access to roughly 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure.

Fears have been growing that bad actors could use powerful AI models to develop more sophisticated cyberattacks. "The work of defending the world's cyber infrastructure might take years; frontier AI capabilities are likely to advance substantially over just the next few months," Anthropic said in a blog post. "For cyber defenders to come out ahead, we need to act now."

Anthropic is committing up to $100 million worth of model usage credits to the security research, and $4 million in direct donations to open-source security organizations.