Alon Pluda

[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

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[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

When identical copies of a frontier AI model are assigned first as attacker, then as defender on the same enterprise network, the defender fails to find its own attack 78% of the time.

Across hundreds of engagements on a live enterprise network, our new research found that AI attackers established persistent backdoors in 85% of runs, while AI defenders detected only 19% of attacks on average. This held consistent across frontier model providers, including OpenAI and Anthropic.

The reason is structural. Offense rides on everything these models are optimized for: deep understanding of code and systems, finding bugs - and a vulnerability is just another kind of bug - and agentic tool use. Defense lives in logs, events, and telemetry. It demands finding a single malicious signal hidden among millions of normal ones, extreme consistency across thousands of decisions in sequence, and a kind of reasoning that general-purpose training does little to build. Increasingly capable general models just widen the gap - they don't close it.

Full research below 👇

[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

@sequoia @CormaAI Thanks @FortuneMagazine for capturing what we're building, and for highlighting why our mission to build superintelligence for defensive cybersecurity matters now more than ever: https://t.co/Nrsz67kVKs

[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

Today we are announcing Corma, and our $60M seed round led by @sequoia.

@CormaAI is building foundation models toward superintelligence for defensive cybersecurity. We do that because general AI is becoming exponentially more capable in offensive security, while it hasn't been able to improve at the same rate in cyber defense - creating an inherent imbalance between attackers and defenders that otherwise cannot be addressed.

Recent events have shown that building frontier AI models for defensive cybersecurity is one of the crucial unsolved problems of the AI age - and solving it is the generational mission Corma was founded on.

Our foundation model has already far surpassed every general-purpose frontier model on defensive cybersecurity tasks, and we are committed to remaining the frontier of defensive cybersecurity intelligence.

Corma is already protecting Fortune 100 companies and some of the world's most important organizations, across healthcare, finance, critical infrastructure, retail, and more. This is just the beginning, as we see it as our calling to protect every organization in the world that needs frontier defense.

We are grateful to our partners @shaunmmaguire and @sonyatweetybird at @sequoia , @vkhosla at @khoslaventures , @DanRose999 at @coatuemgmt , and @Weiner_Lia at Netz Capital, who believed in our ability to lead the intelligence race in cybersecurity and make sure the defenders always win.

[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

@khoslaventures @CormaAI Honored to partner with you on this mission!

[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

@sonyatweetybird Honored to be on this mission with you and the @sequoia team! Let's make sure the defenders win this race.

[Alon Pluda @AlonPluda]

@shaunmmaguire @CormaAI Honored to be on this mission with you and the @sequoia team! Let's make sure the defenders win this race.

[Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird]

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