OpenAI's new GPT-6 Cyber AI finds 81 Firefox flaws, 948 Linux bugs

What happened?

OpenAI has revealed GPT-6 Cyber, a new artificial intelligence model that has discovered 81 previously unknown high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities and developed working exploits for 948 distinct Linux kernel flaws. [...]

Key details

• OpenAI announced GPT-6 Cyber, a new AI model for vulnerability discovery and exploit development.
• The model found 81 new high-severity Firefox flaws and helped create patches already released by Mozilla.
• In Linux kernel research, GPT-6 Cyber identified 2,308 potential flaws and built exploits for 948 privilege escalation bugs.
• GPT-6 Cyber achieved a 48.5% exploit success rate on the ExploitGym benchmark, outperforming GPT-5.6 Cyber at 32.1%.
• OpenAI classifies GPT-6 Cyber as Critical under its Preparedness Framework, up from High for the previous model.
• Access is limited to approved Daybreak Red customers, with plans to expand to all Daybreak Red users soon.
• OpenAI warns defenders have a limited window to use frontier AI models to secure software before attackers gain similar capabilities.

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