OpenAI gives Ukraine its Daybreak cyber defence system and GPT‑5.6 Sol
The company says the tools will help protect hospitals and power plants from attack. A defence researcher told the BBC that Ukraine already uses AI tools from Google.
OpenAI will give the government of Ukraine access to Daybreak, its AI cyber defence system, the company said on Wednesday. The aim is to help protect civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and power plants. The BBC reported that the arrangement is free of charge. It includes access to GPT-5.6 Sol, which the broadcaster described as a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models.
According to the BBC, Daybreak can quickly identify weaknesses in digital systems and help develop fixes. OpenAI has not published figures on how well it performs, so that description rests on the company's own account. Ukraine's national cyber incident team, CERT-UA, recorded nearly 6,000 attacks in 2025, the broadcaster said.
George Osborne, the former UK chancellor who now heads OpenAI for Countries, said civilian infrastructure must be defended against both physical and digital attacks. Rafe Pilling of the security firm Sophos told the BBC that Russian cyber operations had been a key part of the Kremlin's aggression against Ukraine since 2014. He said the tools could act as a force multiplier.
Jamie MacColl, a cyber researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, said Western technology firms may gain valuable data and intelligence from an active conflict. He noted that Ukraine already has AI tools from OpenAI's competitors, including Google. Neither OpenAI nor the BBC gave a start date or said how long the arrangement will last.