# Microsoft AI — Introducing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-08-13
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8414-introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Cyber-1-Flash

Microsoft announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model integrated into its MDASH multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The model achieves 96% on the CyberGym any-crash benchmark and delivers a 50% cost saving compared to the previous best offering in MDASH. Microsoft also launched Perception, an agentic security system that will use MAI-Cyber-1-Flash.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash:

> The result is that the unified system of MDASH with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash delivers 96 % on CyberGym ( on the benchmark’s any crash score; outperform s Mythos on the CyberGym leaderboard ). This combination delivers a 50% cost saving when compared against our best offering in MDASH today (GPT 5.4 + 5.4 mini + 5.3 codex).

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