OpenAI details its Defense Factory: 250+ people using AI agents to find and fix vulnerabilities
AdtRaghunathan · x · 2026-09-10
OpenAI is sharing how it mobilized 250+ people across hundreds of systems, using its latest cyber models to surface vulnerabilities it might never have found otherwise.
The writeup includes the architecture and a practical playbook for building a "Defense Factory": a continuous loop where AI agents find vulnerabilities, validate them, and verify that fixes work.
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