Google Cybersecurity Team Inspired by Georgia Tech’s AIxCC Win

Members of the recently victorious cybersecurity group known as Team Atlanta received recognition from one of the top technology companies in the world for their discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) earlier this year.

On November 1, a team of Google’s security researchers from Project Zero announced they were inspired by the Georgia Tech students and alumni on the team that discovered a flaw in SQLite. This widely used open-source database ran the competition’s scoring algorithm.

According to a post from the project’s blog, when Google researchers saw the success of Atlantis, the large language model (LLM) used in AIxCC, they deployed their LLM to check vulnerabilities in SQLite.