Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, taking a big swipe at major players in the space ' namely Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model that's built 'to find challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases.' The model is built to animate MDASH, Microsoft's harness dedicated to software vulnerability identification and remediation. The new security platform is dubbed Perception, and it's designed to deploy teams of agents to assist with and automate various security workflows, including identifying and remediating bugs. The platform can also integrate with MDASH. 'We're very very excited to announce our results,' said Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI. 'We have MAI-1 Cyber Flash binded [sic] with GPT 5.4 inside of the MDASH harness ' which beats out Gemini, GPT 5.5 Cyber, GPT 5.6 Sol, and...
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