“Founded three years ago and based in Tel Aviv, Irregular is a niche player in artificial intelligence, backed with $80 million from Sequoia and #RedpointVentures and valued last year at $450 million. Its technology serves as a sort of #cybersecurity test bed for AI models.

With the leading models becoming ever more powerful, their ability to act in malicious ways is turning into a major threat for corporations and governments, especially as the risk involves hacking into critical computer #systems and #infrastructure. The recent exploits at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all involved their AI models accessing websites that should have been off-limits as part of the cybersecurity testing.

#Irregular’s name kept coming up because it was identified as hosting the so-called evaluation testbed.”

Meanwhile #VC money is having a two-way bet; Money on #AI; Money on #hacking AI-models… I mean *cough* #Pentesting *cough*

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