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Cloudflare Sends Client Code To OpenAI's Servers To Hunt Bugs

Cloudflare Sends Client Code To OpenAI's Servers To Hunt Bugs

Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, an invite-only Managed Defense feature, runs OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Cyber model through recon, hunting and validation stages.

  • GPT-5.6 Cyber, from OpenAI's Daybreak Defense Network, hunts vulnerabilities in Cloudflare Workers and proxied application code.
  • Model inference runs on OpenAI's own servers through AI Gateway, never on Cloudflare's edge network.
  • Early access covers one application per engagement; customers alone decide whether proposed patches get applied.

Why it matters: Handing a stranger's model read access to your source code trades a vulnerability for a permanent dependency.

Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Sep 3, 20269/3/26