Depthfirst Finds Critical Internet Flaws at One-Tenth Cost of Anthropic's Mythos

According to BlockBeats, on May 12, AI cybersecurity startup Depthfirst announced that its self-developed AI vulnerability discovery model found multiple critical security flaws missed by Anthropic’s Mythos, claiming the total cost was just one-tenth of the latter’s. Depthfirst CEO Qasim Mithani stated the company can “complete work for $1,000 that Mythos would require $10,000 to accomplish” by optimizing model architecture for single-task performance.

Depthfirst also launched the “Open Defense Initiative,” a $5 million program providing its AI vulnerability detection tools to enterprises and open-source developers. The company discovered a critical flaw in NGINX, the world’s most widely used web server, which has existed since 2008 and could potentially affect numerous websites globally. F5 Networks, which maintains NGINX, is expected to release a patch this week.