DARPA reports that seven finalist cyber reasoning systems analyzed over 54 million lines of code, found 54 unique synthetic vulnerabilities in 63 challenges and patched 43, and found 18 real non-synthetic vulnerabilities with 11 patches. Team Atlanta won $4 million, Trail of Bits $3 million and Theori $1.5 million; DARPA and ARPA-H added $1.4 million for real-world integration and four systems were open-sourced on the day.
ARPA-H
US health research agency; co-sponsored the AI Cyber Challenge.
Aug 8, 2025
AIxCC final: Team Atlanta wins as systems patch 43 of 54 found synthetic bugs and find 18 real ones
Aug 11, 2024
AIxCC semifinal: AI systems find 22 synthetic vulnerabilities, patch 15, and find one real SQLite bug
DARPA reports that in the AIxCC semifinal at DEF CON 32, nearly 40 cyber reasoning systems were tested on challenge projects based on Jenkins, the Linux kernel, Nginx, SQLite3 and Apache Tika. Competitors' systems found 22 unique synthetic vulnerabilities, patched 15, and found one real-world SQLite3 bug; seven teams advanced with $2 million each and must open-source their systems after the final.