Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing to Counter AI with AI

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, has launched Project Glasswing to prevent AI-based cyber attacks by utilising the technology itself. Project Glasswing arrives amid rising concerns that AI advancements not only bring benefits but also open up new threat opportunities in the cybersecurity realm. Anthropic explains that the initiative of Project Glasswing aims to secure the most critical software that forms the foundation of various digital services in the AI world. The San Francisco-based AI company in the United States has even partnered with several other tech giants for Project Glasswing. Some of those companies are Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, JPMorgan Chase, Linux Foundation, and Palo Alto Networks. In addition, access has been extended to more than 40 additional organisations that are building or maintaining critical software infrastructure. “No single organisation can do this alone; leading AI developers, software companies, security researchers, open-source maintainers, and governments all have important roles to play,” stated Anthropic. In Project Glasswing, partners use Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, to support their system defence security efforts. Claude Mythos Preview is a versatile AI model claimed to be the most advanced for programming tasks and agentic systems. This model is said to be capable of understanding and modifying complex software. Such capabilities enable AI to detect and fix security vulnerabilities. Anthropic claims that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered thousands of vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in various critical infrastructures, operating systems, and web browsers. However, for now, the model is only available in a limited research preview stage. The model can be accessed via Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic is also providing a total of $100 million in usage credits (approximately Rp 1.7 trillion) to support this project and other participants during the research phase.