US EditionGoogle DeepMind Minds the Patch with AI Flaw-Fixing Scheme
CodeMender has generated 72 verified security patches for open-source projects using AI-driven analysis, with all patches undergoing human review before release.
- On October 6, Google DeepMind announced CodeMender, an AI agent built on Gemini Deep Think that automatically patches critical software vulnerabilities.
- Developers face time-consuming bug hunts, and Google said attackers use AI for faster attacks, prompting AI-driven defenses to improve vulnerability detection and fixing.
- Using static and dynamic analysis, CodeMender leverages differential testing, fuzzing, SMT solvers, a multi-agent architecture, and an automatic validation framework to self-correct before finalizing patches, DeepMind says.
- Highlighting real-world impact, in six months CodeMender upstreamed 72 security fixes to open-source projects and applied-fbounds-safety annotations to libwebp, linked to the 2023 zero-click iOS exploit.
- While still a research project, DeepMind says CodeMender patches are reviewed by human researchers and plans outreach to open-source maintainers, AI VRP launch, SAIF 2.0 expansion, and technical papers.
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