back to article DARPA, ARPA-H award $14m to 7 AIxCC semifinalists, with a catch

One year after it began, the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) has whittled its pool of contestants down to seven semifinalists. The contest, unexpectedly announced at Black Hat in 2023, saw teams competing to build AI models able to better secure open source code undergirding many of the systems used in critical infrastructure …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Making the CCP better one step at a time...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Wut !!!???

      See ^^^^^^^^

      :)

  2. Denarius Silver badge
    Meh

    Odd but probably not well expressed I suspect. As in the YouSS of AA and ruins of Europe, any improvements in Open Sauce get taken without any reward, assistance, ie money to OS coders. However corporates and their national equivalents like to use free stuff. One of them being middling kingdom. Helps with snooping

  3. Blazde Silver badge

    Competitors' systems also found one real-world bug

    One? Without digging into it.. this seems poor for 7 (or 42 or all?) entrants. Is this because they were basically not tested against real world code, or because they don't work very well?

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