{"683872":{"#nid":"683872","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Makes History, Wins DARPA Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/team-atlanta.github.io\/\u0022\u003ETeam Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, a group of Georgia Tech students, faculty, and alumni, achieved international fame on Friday when they won DARPA\u2019s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) and its $4 million grand prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIxCC was a two-year long competition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled cyber reasoning system capable of autonomously finding and patching vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a once in a generation competition organized by DARPA about how to utilize recent advancements in AI to use in security related tasks,\u201d said Georgia Tech Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs hackers we started this competition as AI skeptics, but now we truly believe in the potential of adopting large language models (LLM) when solving security problems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlantis system was Team Atlanta\u2019s submission. Atlantis is a fuzzer- or an automated software that finds vulnerabilities or bugs- and enhanced it with several different types of LLMs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile developing the system, Team Atlanta reported the heat put out by the GPU rack was hot enough to roast marshmallows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team was comprised of hackers, engineers, and cybersecurity researchers. The Georgia Tech alumni on the team also represented their employers which include KAIST, POSTECH, and Samsung Research. Kim is also the vice president of Samsung Research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/team-atlanta.github.io\/\u0022\u003ETeam Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, a group of Georgia Tech students, faculty, and alumni, achieved international fame on Friday when they won DARPA\u2019s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) and its $4 million grand prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIxCC was a two-year long competition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled cyber reasoning system capable of autonomously finding and patching vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A group of Georgia Tech students, faculty, and alumni, achieved international fame on Friday when they won DARPA\u2019s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) and its $4 million grand prize."}],"uid":"36253","created_gmt":"2025-08-15 19:19:56","changed_gmt":"2025-08-19 15:14:12","author":"John Popham","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677708":{"id":"677708","type":"image","title":"Team Atlanta at DefCon 33","body":null,"created":"1755285635","gmt_created":"2025-08-15 19:20:35","changed":"1755285635","gmt_changed":"2025-08-15 19:20:35","alt":"Team Atlanta stands on the dark DefCon stage during the convention\u0027s closing ceremony. ","file":{"fid":"261641","name":"IMG_9163.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/15\/IMG_9163.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/15\/IMG_9163.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2393783,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/15\/IMG_9163.jpg?itok=QL3hjg7_"}}},"media_ids":["677708"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"660367","name":"School of Cybersecurity and Privacy"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"193158","name":"Student Competition Winners (academic, innovation, and research)"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"193653","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Popham\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer II at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpopham3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}