AIxCC Part 2 - From Skeptics to Believers: How Team Atlanta Won AIxCC by Combining Traditional Security with LLMs

AIxCC Part 2 - From Skeptics to Believers: How Team Atlanta Won AIxCC by Combining Traditional Security with LLMs

February 10, 2026 · 28 min · Season 3 · Episode 4

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Professor Taesoo Kim discusses Team Atlanta's victory in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge and their shift in mindset regarding AI tools.

In this 2nd episode in our series on DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), CRob sits down with Professor Taesoo Kim from Georgia Tech to discuss Team Atlanta's journey to victory. Kim shares how his team - comprised of academics, world-class hackers, and Samsung engineers - initially skeptical of AI tools, underwent a complete mindset shift during the competition. He shares how they successfully augmented traditional security techniques like fuzzing and symbolic execution with LLM capabilities ...

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