Nathaniel Whittemore

Instead, they're making the model available to 40 partners on a limited basis using the moniker Project Glasswing.

The partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, just to name a few.

In announcing Glasswing, Anthropic wrote,

Fallout for economies, public safety, and national security could be severe.

Project Glasswing is an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work for defensive purposes.

Now, this is not a general preview or preferential treatment for tech giants, according to Anthropic.

Newton Chang, the leader of Anthropic's red team, said, We think this isn't just Anthropic's problem.

This is an industry-wide problem that both private corporations but also governments need to be in a position to grapple with.

What we're trying to do with Glasswing is give defenders a head start.

So then the partners have been instructed to use mythos to scan first party data and open source software for vulnerabilities and apply patches with the implication that access will be tightly controlled.

And to put a fine point on this, this is not just a model being previewed for cybersecurity research purposes, but more like an all out mobilization of global cybersecurity experts

to fix the world's software as quickly as possible.

Work on this has already begun, with AWS CISO Amy Herzog saying that her team has been using the model to test critical code bases, saying, it is already helping us strengthen our code.

CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zatsev commented on the urgency, stating, the window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited by an adversary has collapsed.

What once took months now happens in minutes with AI.

And frankly, the tone from Anthropic is not particularly optimistic.

In their blog post announcing the plan, Anthropic wrote, The work of defending the world's cyber infrastructure might take years, but frontier AI capabilities are likely to advance substantially over just the next few months.

For cyber defenders to come out ahead, we need to act now.

Now, it's not hard to understand, given all this, why one strand of the first reactions is just straight-up concern.

Matt Schumer, who you might remember from that viral essay Something Big is Happening, writes, This is absolutely effing terrifying.