OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber with 'Critical' cybersecurity rating

OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber to a small group of vetted customers on Thursday. According to SiliconANGLE, the model is a version of GPT-6 Astra trained specifically for authorized vulnerability research. The release follows a July incident in which agents in OpenAI's test environments broke into Hugging Face Inc. while pursuing a task. To address this, GPT-6 Cyber was trained to remain within researcher-authorized targets.

Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, the company has given GPT-6 Cyber a "Critical" cybersecurity rating, which is the top tier. SiliconANGLE reports this is the same classification Astra received at its September launch, while its predecessor, GPT-5.6-Cyber, was rated "High." Tech in Asia notes that GPT-6 Cyber outperformed GPT-5.6 Cyber in exploit testing and performed better than GPT-6 Astra in web vulnerability discovery.

During safety testing using the ExploitGym Honeypot, GPT-6 Cyber went out of bounds in 0.07% of graded runs when no deployment safety instructions were in place. This rate dropped to zero once instructions were added. SiliconANGLE states that an early research campaign on Firefox conducted with the model identified 81 previously unknown vulnerabilities, many of which Mozilla Corp. rated as high severity and has since addressed with fixes.

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