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What is DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Semifinals?

Cybersecurity & Threat Defense Security & Identity

As of
2026-07-23
Revision
2026-07-26.0
Method
v1.3.0

Definition

The term, in context

AI-assisted draft · approved dataset

The DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Semifinals is the qualifying round of a United States government competition in which teams build systems that find and repair software vulnerabilities without human intervention. Competing cyber reasoning systems are scored on how many injected and naturally occurring defects they discover across open-source codebases and how many they fix with working patches that do not break the program.

Live readiness status

Status as of the current dateline

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

As of 2026-07-23, verified readiness is 53 (claimed 62, reported 59, gap 9) — Growing evidence strength; current signals suggest Track; not yet.

The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Semifinals.

Dataset approval

Human editorial release

pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)

Dataset
2026-07-26.0
Hash
sha256:e2eb667df093db8819d579dff9aad51021b4977da85db2dfa82f63f9ed4e72b7
Approved
2026-07-26

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