additional context on the project: https://x.com/Eric_Wallace_/status/2118123944251453949
OpenAI allocates frontier compute to finding and patching open-source vulnerabilities
AIOpenAI says it is allocating a significant amount of its frontier compute to discovering and patching vulnerabilities in open-source codebases, fully pro bono. In one case, its upcoming frontier cyber model found about 1000 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel in one week using about $1M of tokens.
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The post gives concrete results, roughly 1000 Linux privilege escalation bugs found in one week versus about 20 per year before AI, showing the scale of the change.
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We are now allocating a significant amount of our frontier compute towards discovering and patching vulnerabilities in open source codebases, fully pro bono. In one case, we studied the Linux kernel, which is a particularly load-bearing piece of software at OpenAI. Before AI, security researchers might discover ~20 local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in Linux in a typical year. In one week's time, our upcoming frontier cyber model was able to find ~1000 LPE vulnerabilities using about $1M of tokens. In the process, it was able to discover at least 10 novel classes of Linux exploitation techniques.View quoted post on X
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