New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its makers are eager for customers to try out. But now Anthropic has announced a new model with great fanfare, but is only giving access to a select handful of users. In what the New York Times calls a “terrifying warning sign” of the model’s power, the company has instead started an initiative called Project Glasswing to use the model for good instead of evil.

No Australian or New Zealand organisation features among the roughly 50 partners granted access to Project Glasswing, Anthropic's landmark AI-driven cybersecurity initiative. Now a rival model from OpenAI has entered the field, with a broader access pathway that may offer ANZ security professionals a more realistic route to frontier AI defensive tooling.