{"id":690590,"date":"2025-09-18T01:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/irregular-raises-80-million-to-secure-frontier-ai-models\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:10:30","slug":"irregular-raises-80-million-to-secure-frontier-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/irregular-raises-80-million-to-secure-frontier-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Wednesday, AI security firm Irregular announced $80 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Wiz CEO Assaf Rapp<\/a>aport. A source close to the deal said the round valued Irregular at $450 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur view is that soon, a lot of economic activity is going to come from human-on-AI interaction and AI-on-AI interaction,\u201d co-founder Dan Lahav told TechCrunch, \u201cand that\u2019s going to break the security stack along multiple points.\u201d<\/p>\n

Formerly known as Pattern Labs, Irregular is already a significant player in AI evaluations. The company\u2019s work is cited in security evaluations for Claude 3.7 Sonnet<\/a> as well as OpenAI\u2019s o3 and o4-mini models<\/a>. More general<\/a>ly, the company\u2019s framework for scoring a model\u2019s vulnerability-detection ability (dubbed SOLVE<\/a>) is widely used within the industry.<\/p>\n

While Irregular has done significant work on models\u2019 existing risks, the company is fundraising with an eye towards something even more ambitious: spotting emergent risks and behaviors before they surface in the wild. The company has constructed an elaborate system of simulated environments, enabling intensive testing of a model before it is released.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have complex network simulations where we have AI both taking the role of attacker and defender,\u201d says co-founder Omer Nevo. \u201cSo when a new model comes out, we can see where the defenses hold up and where they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Security has become a point of intense focus for the AI industry, as the potential risks posed by frontier models as more risks have emerged. OpenAI overhauled its internal security measures this summer, with an eye towards potential corporate espionage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the same time, AI models are increasingly adept at finding software vulnerabilities \u2014 a power with serious implications for both attackers and defenders.<\/p>\n

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For the Irregular founders, it\u2019s the first of many security headaches caused by the growing capabilities of large language models.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the goal of the frontier lab is to create increasingly more sophisticated and capable models, our goal is to secure these models,\u201d Lahav says. \u201cBut it\u2019s a moving target, so inherently there\u2019s much, much, much more work to do in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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