In the year full of AI agents, OpenAI has launched AI assistants that can take action on your behalf to help you research, shop, and code — and now even act as a security researcher. Aardvark, OpenAI’s new agentic security researcher powered by GPT-5 and released Thursday, can assist security teams by identifying and helping patch vulnerabilities. The agent is meant to tackle existing challenges in the software security space, as tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases every year, the company said in the blog post. OpenAI noted that Aardvark began as an internal tool to help its own developers. “Our developers found real value in how clearly it explained issues and guided them to fixes. That signal told us we were on the path to something meaningful,” Matt Knight, VP at OpenAI, told me.

Full report : OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta.