Microsoft Says Its New Cybersecurity AI Beats Industry Leaders at Half the Cost
Tech > Services & Software > AI Microsoft Says Its New Cybersecurity AI Beats Industry Leaders at Half the Cost The agentic MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, with some help, outscores Claude Mythos 5 on CyberGym. The security product is designed for “using AI to defend against AI,” Microsoft says. The combination of MAI-Cyber-1-Flash with MDASH — which launched in May — is called Project Perception, and it enters public preview on Aug.
- ▪Tech > Services & Software > AI Microsoft Says Its New Cybersecurity AI Beats Industry Leaders at Half the Cost The agentic MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, with some help, outscores Claude Mythos 5 on CyberGym.
- ▪The security product is designed for “using AI to defend against AI,” Microsoft says.
- ▪The combination of MAI-Cyber-1-Flash with MDASH — which launched in May — is called Project Perception, and it enters public preview on Aug.
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Tech > Services & Software > AI Microsoft Says Its New Cybersecurity AI Beats Industry Leaders at Half the Cost The agentic MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, with some help, outscores Claude Mythos 5 on CyberGym. Corinne Reichert Senior Editor Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019.… Read full bio Corinne Reichert Senior Editor Read full bio July 27, 2026, 4:46 pm ET 2 min read FinkAvenue/Getty Images Microsoft has a new AI cybersecurity model called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and when it’s combined with agentic security system MDASH and OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 model, it outscores Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 by 12 points on a key benchmark. The security product is designed for “using AI to defend against AI,” Microsoft says.
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