GoKawiilOpenAI on Monday said it is expanding Daybreak, its exclusive cybersecurity initiative, to help give its participants access to the "right capabilities" that they need to help defend themselves from attackers.
The company first introduced Daybreak in May, shortly after its chief rival Anthropic captivated Wall Street and the U.S. government by launching its own cybersecurity coalition called Project Glasswing. OpenAI positioned Daybreak as a way for its ecosystem partners to use its most advanced artificial intelligence models to adapt to a rapidly changing threat landscape.
OpenAI said Monday that it is expanding the program to include two different access tiers: Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red. The expansion follows a number of cybersecurity incidents that AI developers —including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta — have disclosed in recent weeks. In each case, an AI model accessed systems that should have been off limits as part of cybersecurity testing, prompting industry researchers and government officials to call for stronger protections.
"As the threat landscape evolves, we're putting frontier intelligence in the hands of trusted defenders before attackers can deploy offensive AI at scale," OpenAI said in a post on X on Monday.
Daybreak Blue will give users unique access to OpenAI's advanced general-purpose models, as the safeguards will be altered to allow for defensive security work, the company said in a blog post. Daybreak Red participants will be able to go a step further, leveraging OpenAI's "purpose-trained cybersecurity models" for security testing, vulnerability research and exploit validation.