Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
OpenAI's Daybreak initiative, Patch the Planet, leverages AI and expert security engineers to help open-source maintainers identify and patch critical vulnerabilities.Summary
Patch the Planet is a collaborative initiative by OpenAI's Daybreak team and Trail of Bits designed to assist open-source maintainers in securing critical infrastructure. By combining frontier AI models with human security expertise, the project automates vulnerability discovery, validation, and patch development while reducing the burden on maintainers. Security engineers manually vet all AI-generated findings to ensure accuracy and minimize false positives before coordination with project maintainers. The initiative has already successfully identified and addressed numerous vulnerabilities in widely used software, including the Linux kernel, browsers, and network tools, while providing participating projects with reusable security workflows and infrastructure.
(Source：OpenAI)