The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise agent platform launched just a month ago.
When Ian Webster was leading the LLM engineering team at Discord, shipping AI products to 200 million users, he noticed something the security industry had not yet caught up with: the tools his team relied on to keep those products safe were built for a different era. Traditional vulnerability scanners could not reason about prompt injection. Static analysis had nothing to say about a model that promised a user something it had no authority to deliver. The testing infrastructure for AI applications, he concluded, simply did not exist.
Källa: Thenextweb
