Daybreak Red, meant for more advanced red-teaming, would provide access to a new model, dubbed GPT-5.6-Cyber, that the company said is more purpose-trained for finding vulnerabilities and testing (or exploiting) them. The model is also less likely to refuse requests around \u201cdual-use cyber tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to OpenAI, the organizations in Daybreak Red will have their use closely monitored and supervised, as GPT-5.6-Cyber is significantly more capable in carrying out malicious cyber tasks than Sol. A security evaluation the company devised tested both models on complex requests, including exploit chain development, authentication bypass, privilege escalation and other hacking tasks. Sol succeeded in 1.5% of the requests, while Cyber completed 95%.<\/p>\n
OpenAI said it plans to publish a more detailed system card for GPT-5.6-Cyber at a later date.<\/p>\n
\u201cModels running with reduced safeguards carry risks beyond standard model usage, whether from misuse or misalignment,\u201d the company said<\/a> in a blog. \u201cDespite these risks, we believe that democratizing access to frontier intelligence for defenders is crucial to accelerating and automating cyber defense.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, OpenAI announced<\/a> a partnership program with 16 major cybersecurity providers, saying organizations could access their models through their existing security services. The partners include IBM, CrowdStrike, Accenture, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Cloudflare, Sophos and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThese partners bring deep security expertise and established relationships with organizations around the world,\u201d OpenAI said in its blog. \u201cBy bringing our frontier cyber models into their services, we can help more defenders find serious vulnerabilities, validate which ones matter, and fix them faster.\u201d<\/p>\n Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and others are trying to rebalance their priorities after a string of AI-agent sandbox escapes have rattled policymakers and caused some cybersecurity experts to question if AI companies are doing enough to properly isolate the models from the internet during testing. Last week, OpenAI said it was intentionally slowing down development of its newer \u201cAstra\u201d model in order to develop better guardrails to restrain its behavior.<\/p>\n Cybersecurity and AI experts have told CyberScoop that while AI systems have greatly improved at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in software code, they still require substantial human guidance and supporting infrastructure<\/a> to operate as intended.<\/p>\n
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