OpenAI Group PBC has unveiled Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous AI agent designed to identify, verify, and help fix software vulnerabilities in real-time.
Aardvark is described as an "AI security researcher" that can scan code repositories, reason about potential exploits, and generate validated patches.
Aardvark represents a "breakthrough in AI and security research"
The agent works by analyzing an entire repository to build a contextual threat model before scanning every new code commit for vulnerabilities.
Author's summary: OpenAI introduces Aardvark, an AI agent for vulnerability detection.