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    CMU / Zico Kolter

    Providing enterprise-grade security solutions for LLMs and AI-powered applications through cutting-edge risk assessment and mitigation tools.

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    At a Glance

    1Tool Listed
    4Products
    44Tool Views
    7Capabilities
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    Pittsburgh, PAHeadquarters
    2023Est.
    29Employees
    $5.68MRaised
    Focus Areas
    AI Courses
    Prompt Engineering Courses
    Machine Learning Courses
    Connect
    Latest News
    Gray Swan appoints Rob Jenks as Chief Strategy OfficerJan 8, 2026
    Study: AI agents outperform human cybersecurity professionalsDec 11, 2025
    Markets
    • Enterprise companies deploying AI
    • Frontier AI labs
    • Model developers
    • Security researchers

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    Latest News

    01/08/2026

    Gray Swan appoints Rob Jenks as Chief Strategy Officer

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    12/11/2025

    Study: AI agents outperform human cybersecurity professionals

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    05/09/2025

    UK AISI × Gray Swan Agent Red-Teaming Challenge results published

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    10/29/2024

    Featured in Forbes: Bulletproofing AI models for OpenAI/Anthropic

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    Products & Services

    4
    Gray Swan Security Suite
    2024-07

    Comprehensive adaptive AI defense system including components Cygnal and Shade.

    Cygnal
    2024-07

    Real-time AI input and output filtering component for securing deployments.

    Shade
    2024-07

    Automated testing component for vulnerability assessment and policy enforcement.

    Gray Swan Arena
    2024-10

    A competition and research platform for threat discovery and AI vulnerability exploitation.

    Market Position

    Pioneers of AI vulnerability research (GCG discovery) providing academic-grade security expertise for industrial AI deployments.

    Leadership

    Founders

    ZK

    Zico Kolter

    Professor and Director of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University; OpenAI Board Member; Qualcomm Board Member; previously Chief Expert at Bosch.

    MF

    Matt Fredrikson

    Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; expert in security and privacy in machine learning.

    AZ

    Andy Zou

    Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University; lead author of the 'Greedy Coordinate Gradient' (GCG) jailbreak paper.

    Executive Team

    MF

    Matt Fredrikson

    Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

    CMU CS Professor and expert in ML security.

    ZK

    Zico Kolter

    Co-founder & Chief Scientist

    CMU ML Dept Director and OpenAI/Qualcomm Board Member.

    Board of Directors

    ZK
    Zico Kolter
    Co-founder & Board Member
    MF
    Matt Fredrikson
    Co-founder & Board Member

    Founding Story

    Founded by the researchers who discovered the GCG jailbreak method, which bypassed safety filters on all major LLMs. The team launched Gray Swan AI to transition their academic discoveries into a comprehensive security suite for enterprises and AI labs.

    Business Model

    Revenue
    Not publicly reported; early pilot programs and enterprise partnerships with AI labs mentioned.

    Revenue Model

    B2B SaaS and API-based usage model for security services and enterprise subscriptions.

    Pricing Tiers

    Enterprise
    Custom

    Full access to Security Suite, Cygnal, and Shade with API support.

    Research/Arena
    Varies

    Free/community access for researchers and bounty programs.

    Private

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • Enterprise companies deploying AI
    • Frontier AI labs
    • Model developers
    • Security researchers
    Use Cases
    • Enterprise AI security for autonomous agents
    • Protecting tool/database/API integrations (MCP)
    • Model safety evaluation for AI labs
    • Regulatory and compliance testing
    • AI red-teaming career training (Proving Ground)
    Notable Customers
    • OpenAI
    • Anthropic
    • US AI Safety Institute
    • UK AI Safety Institute

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    Pittsburgh, PA
    Founded
    2023
    Entity Type
    Inc.
    Employees
    29
    Total Funding
    $5.68M
    Investors
    Juniper Ventures, Lionheart Ventures
    Office Locations
    Pittsburgh

    Funding History

    Seed$5.68M
    2024
    Juniper Ventures
    Lionheart Ventures

    History & Milestones

    2026-01-08

    Appointed Rob Jenks as Chief Strategy Officer.

    2025-04

    US AI Safety Institute joins Gray Swan's Agent Red-Teaming Challenge as co-judge.

    2025-06

    Introduced Gray Swan AI Proving Ground for training AI red-teamers.

    2025-12

    Published study with Stanford showing AI agents outperform humans in penetration testing.

    2024-07-16

    Emerged from stealth with official public launch.

    Key Capabilities

    7
    Adaptive AI defense (Cygnal)
    Automated vulnerability testing (Shade)
    AI red-teaming and risk assessment
    Real-time input/output filtering
    Representation Engineering (RepE) monitors
    Jailbreak protection (GCG and adversarial text generation)

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • Python API
    • JavaScript API
    • cURL
    • Model Context Protocol (MCP)

    Key Partnerships

    US AI Safety Institute
    UK AI Safety Institute
    Stanford University (Research study)

    Connect

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