Microsoft Launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and ‘Perception’ Security Platform, Sharpening AI Cybersecurity Battle With Anthropic, Google and OpenAI

Microsoft launched its first cybersecurity-specialised AI model and a new agentic security platform at a San Francisco event on Monday, extending the MDASH multi-agent security system already rolling out to South African customers and putting the company into direct competition with Anthropic, Google and OpenAI on the fastest-growing frontier of enterprise AI security. The new model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, is designed to identify complex vulnerabilities in software codebases and is built to power MD