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Microsoft's 100+ AI Agents Combat AI-Driven Cyber Threats
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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Microsoft unveiled Perception, a cybersecurity platform deploying 100+ AI agents across Red, Blue, and Green teams to simulate, detect, and patch AI-driven attacks in real time. The system achieved 95.95% accuracy on the CyberZ benchmark, outperforming OpenAI and Anthropic while operating at half the cost through selective model routing.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cybersecurity, and 5 sources have reported it between 27 Jul 2026 and 3 Aug 2026.
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The economics of security just shifted from specialized models to model routing. If you sell threat detection, anomaly scoring, or vulnerability analysis, Microsoft's ensemble approach—routing 90% of work to cheaper models and 10% to expensive ones—is now your competitor's cost floor.
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5 sources · first reported 27 Jul 2026 · latest 3 Aug 2026
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