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# “We are now allocating a significant amount of our frontier compute towards…”

Eric Wallace (@Eric_Wallace_), X, 2026-11-04.
Source: https://x.com/Eric_Wallace_/status/2118123944251453949

## Archived text

> We are now allocating a significant amount of our frontier compute towards discovering and patching vulnerabilities in open source codebases, fully pro bono.
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> In one case, we studied the Linux kernel, which is a particularly load-bearing piece of software at OpenAI.
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> Before AI, security researchers might discover ~20 local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in Linux in a typical year.
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> In one week's time, our upcoming frontier cyber model was able to find ~1000 LPE vulnerabilities using about $1M of tokens. In the process, it was able to discover at least 10 novel classes of Linux exploitation techniques.
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> > Quoting @OpenAI: Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline.
> > 
> > In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel at a total API cost of $1.2 million.

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- 2026-11-04: [OpenAI: an upcoming cyber model validated and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation bugs in one run for $1.2M in API costs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-openai-cyber-pipeline-948-linux-privilege-escalations/)