Why are Tech Giants Joining Anthropic's Project Glasswing?

When Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview revealed thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system, it did not take long for the tech industry to grasp the significance.

The exceptional vulnerability detection capabilities of AI could give unprecedented power to threat actors. To this end, Anthropic has lifted the veil on Project Glasswing, an ambitious initiative for the industry to secure its applications by applying frontier AI models to critical software analysis.

The coalition includes major industry players such as AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks – all collaborating to showcase AI-driven software analysis capabilities.

The initiative reflects a growing and urgent momentum across the technology sector towards security before the proliferation of models with such capabilities. 

Writing on LinkedIn, Daniela Amodei, President at Anthropic, says: "Glasswing is built around Claude Mythos Preview, our new limited-release frontier model, which has so far found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities – including some that survived decades of human review – spanning every major operating system and browser."

"AI cyber capabilities at this level will proliferate over the coming months and not every actor who gets access to them will be focused on defence. That's the gap Glasswing is built to close.

"Cyber defence at this scale is a team effort. Frontier labs, software companies, security researchers, open-source maintainers and governments all working together is how defenders will stay ahead."

Claude Mythos Preview 

At the heart of Glasswing are the advanced analytical capabilities of Claude Mythos Preview.

A testament to its effectiveness is the discovery of a vulnerability – dating back 27 years – in OpenBSD, which is an operating system widely used to run firewalls and other critical infrastructure due to its reputation as the most security-hardened OS in the world.

The bug allows an attacker to remotely crash any machine running OpenBSD simply by connecting to it.

Another significant vulnerability has been identified in FFmpeg, a tool used to encode and decode video.

The Linux kernel, which powers the majority of the world's servers, also contains flaws that could allow an attacker to gain full control of a machine.

"The more capable AI becomes, the more security it needs," notes George Kurtz, President, CEO and Founder of CrowdStrike. This is why Anthropic selected CrowdStrike as a founding member of their security coalition for Claude Mythos Preview.

"AI is creating the largest security demand driver since enterprises moved to the cloud. Claude Code is changing how people use computers. OpenClaw is set to reshape how enterprises automate. Mythos may be the most capable frontier model yet. It won't be the last.

"All of these AI innovations meet enterprises at the endpoint. That's where they access data, make decisions and also create risk."

Scaling AI innovation responsibly

Anthropic has committed US$100m in model usage credits to Project Glasswing and additional participants, supporting the application of advanced AI to critical software analysis.

The company is also donating US$4m to open-source security organisations to further the cause.

Although AI-augmented cyber attack risks are serious, Anthropic notes: "The same capabilities that make AI models dangerous in the wrong hands make them invaluable for finding and fixing flaws in important software.

"Project Glasswing is an important step toward giving defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity."

AI-driven code analysis

Project Glasswing is as much about demonstrating frontier AI capabilities as it is about practical application.

By granting organisations early access to advanced tools like Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic is enabling exploration of what next-generation AI systems can achieve in complex analytical tasks.

"AI capabilities have crossed a threshold that fundamentally changes the urgency required to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats and there is no going back," says Anthony Grieco, SVP & Chief Security & Trust Officer at Cisco.

"Our foundational work with these models has shown we can identify and fix security vulnerabilities across hardware and software at a pace and scale previously impossible. That is a profound shift and a clear signal that the old ways of hardening systems are no longer sufficient.

"Providers of technology must aggressively adopt new approaches now and customers need to be ready to deploy. That is why Cisco joined Project Glasswing – this work is too important and too urgent to do alone."

Through collaboration, controlled deployment and sustained investment, Anthropic demonstrates that advanced AI systems can tackle complex analytical challenges at scales that could redefine what is possible in automated software analysis.