On 27 July Microsoft began its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco. This undertaking was a big swing at major players in the security 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 reme
