Google Expands Access to CodeMender AI Tool for Security Testing

Google announced at its I/O conference that it is inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an AI agent for code security that the company first introduced last October. The company is now making the tool more widely available outside Google and is marketing it as a way to help secure the world's code bases by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities.

Anthropic released its Claude Mythos Preview earlier this year. The announcement drew attention from banks and government agencies because the model was designed to identify previously unknown security gaps in high-stakes systems. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters during a Monday press briefing that Mythos demonstrated value for large models in security use cases and that Google is also capable of similar work.

Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu confirmed in an interview that the company has already discussed CodeMender with governments and enterprises for system audits.

OpenAI introduced its own cybersecurity offering after the Mythos announcement. Google is now following the same pattern as other AI companies seeking revenue from enterprise and government security contracts.