White House Launches $20 Million AI Cyber Challenge

The White House announced a two-year competition in which teams will compete for $20 million in prizes awarded for novel uses of AI to fix software vulnerabilities. Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI agreed to make their technology available to competitors in the AI Cyber Challenge, which will be led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The “competitor that best secures vital software will win millions of dollars in prizes,” the White House said Thursday. DARPA will reserve $7 million for small businesses seeking to compete. This includes security measures for internet code and critical infrastructure systems.