OpenAI announced on Monday the expansion of Daybreak, its cybersecurity service introduced earlier this year, and simultaneously launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) model dedicated to digital security tasks.
This initiative comes amid a growing proliferation of attacks orchestrated by AI agents, which include intrusions into Hugging Face, attacks on an academy website, and the creation of fake profiles for social engineering purposes.
Daybreak consolidates access to models, tools, and workflows intended for defense specialists. With this expansion, the service now operates at two levels, named Blue and Red, granting previously approved clients access to the company's most advanced models, which previously had considerable restrictions on permitted user use.
The frontier models are the most sophisticated available and have already generated controversy; the Trump administration, for example, sought cooperation with AI companies for the launch of these models, mentioning security-related concerns.
Analysis of the Attack and Defense Scenario
Critics argue that the increase in attacks carried out by AI agents also represents a marketing opportunity for the laboratories that develop such models. OpenAI framed the expanded Daybreak within this scenario, stating in a blog post:
"The world of cybersecurity is changing rapidly — threat agents will increasingly use AI to conduct cyberattacks at unprecedented speed and scale, including in fully autonomous ways. As these capabilities spread, defenders have an ever-shrinking window to prepare."
In parallel, other corporations are showing interest in hiring the protection offered by AI labs, precisely because these labs have direct knowledge of security risks. Anthropic, a competitor of OpenAI, had already made available its own cybersecurity-focused model called Mythos.
