Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing with Major Tech and Finance Partners to Defensively Deploy AI Cybersecurity Model

Anthropic has announced Project Glasswing, a new initiative bringing together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks to secure critical software using advanced AI capabilities.

The project centers on Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model developed by Anthropic that the company says can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview has already identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including flaws in every major operating system and web browser.

As part of Project Glasswing, launch partners will use Mythos Preview for defensive security work. Anthropic is also extending access to over 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure, committing up to $100 million in usage credits for the model and $4 million in direct donations to open-source security organizations.

Anthropic detailed several specific vulnerabilities discovered by Mythos Preview, including a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD that allowed remote crashing of machines, a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg that survived five million automated test hits, and multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities that could be chained together for privilege escalation. The company reported these to maintainers and they have been patched.

The initiative comes as Anthropic warns that AI capabilities for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities are advancing rapidly and could proliferate beyond actors committed to safe deployment, potentially threatening economies, public safety, and national security.