OpenAI commits $1 billion to expand frontier AI cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, essential services

AI research and deployment company OpenAI is committing US$1 billion to its Daybreak for Frontline Defenders initiative to expand subsidized access to frontier AI cyber capabilities, training, technical support and partnerships for frontline defenders protecting essential services in the U.S. and globally.

“Daybreak for Frontline Defenders brings together $1 billion in subsidized access to frontier cyber capabilities, hands-on training and technical assistance, and new partnerships to get those capabilities to organizations that protect the services people depend on every day,” OpenAI said in a statement last week. “We are starting where the gap is greatest: with defenders carrying enormous responsibility without the resources of the world’s largest companies. Our goal is to build a model that can protect the services Americans rely on and, with our partners, help put frontier cybersecurity in the hands of frontline defenders around the world.”

Daybreak for America brings together all of OpenAI’s U.S. work to protect the systems Americans rely on every day, from water and electricity to local government and banking, including a new pilot with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). The Daybreak Defense Network brings Daybreak cyber models into over 35 enterprise products and partner-operated services, integrating them into tools, services, and workflows enterprise defenders already use.