Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
DARPA and ARPA-H joined forces for the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year competition aimed at revolutionizing cybersecurity through AI-driven solutions. AIxCC asks the nation’s top talent in AI and cybersecurity to develop Cyber Reasoning Systems capable of automatically finding and fixing software vulnerabilities to secure critical software. During this talk, we will announce the winners of the competition, deep dive on the challenges teams faced and lessons learned, and discuss what it will take to achieve widespread deployment of AIxCC-developed tools, which will be open sourced after DEF CON. The first-place team will receive $4 million, the second-place team will receive $3 million, and the third-place team will receive $1.5 million.
DARPA and ARPA-H joined forces for the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year competition aimed at revolutionizing cybersecurity through AI-driven solutions. AIxCC asks the nation’s top talent in AI and cybersecurity to develop Cyber Reasoning Systems capable of automatically finding and fixing software vulnerabilities to secure critical software. During this talk, we will announce the winners of the competition, deep dive on the challenges teams faced and lessons learned, and discuss what it will take to achieve widespread deployment of AIxCC-developed tools, which will be open sourced after DEF CON. The first-place team will receive $4 million, the second-place team will receive $3 million, and the third-place team will receive $1.5 million.
