Living definition
What is Google DeepMind Big Sleep?
Cybersecurity & Threat DefenseSecurity & Identity
- As of
- 2026-10-01
- Revision
- 2026-10-06.1
- Method
- v1.4.0
Definition
The term, in context
AI-assisted draft · approved dataset
Big Sleep is an AI-driven vulnerability research collaboration between Google DeepMind and Google's Project Zero that uses a large language model to autonomously analyze source code, reason about program behavior, and discover previously unknown security vulnerabilities in real-world software.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-10-01, verified readiness is 55 (claimed 55, reported 55, gap 0) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Treat Big Sleep as a demonstrated supervised vulnerability-research capability.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Google DeepMind Big Sleep.
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
Codex — delegated editorial approver (operator authorization 2026-10-06)
- Dataset
- 2026-10-06.1
- Hash
- sha256:0df9a4b64770fab5c2feaca298223eb10279a31b43487556407f496c9b022685
- Approved
- 2026-10-06