The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI.

This is anticipated to be a six month project with a goal to reduce the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD codebase. This is a $250k USD grant for key members of the FreeBSD Security Team. Beyond the Alpha-Omega involvement, Netflix is going to be helping test and validate changes from this security research.

The FreeBSD Security Team will be using publicly-available large language models while some of those involved also have access to Clade Mythos via Project Glasswing.

More details on this new AI-assisted vulnerability discovery initiative for FreeBSD can be found via FreeBSDFoundation.org.