Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

Microsoft launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a cybersecurity-specialised AI model designed to find vulnerabilities in complex codebases, alongside Perception, a platform deploying teams of agents to automate security workflows and vulnerability remediation. The company claims superior performance and cost-effectiveness versus competitors including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.

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