OpenAI · Ukraine · Russia · Decrypt
Until January 2024, its usage policy flatly banned military and warfare activity of any kind
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Not everyone reads Big Tech's Ukraine support as pure goodwill, either.
Key facts
- Until January 2024, its usage policy flatly banned military and warfare activity of any kind
- The offer went to Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation and was announced Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly
- Daybreak runs on GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI's flagship large language model—the same kind of AI that powers ChatGPT, trained on huge volumes of text and code so it can read software the way a human expert
- OpenAI's $1 billion pledge said the company would extend the program to partner countries within weeks, and Ukraine's access, unveiled three weeks later, is the clearest sign yet of that promise
Summary
OpenAI will give Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation access to Daybreak, its AI tool for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities. Ukraine's CERT-UA handled nearly 6,000 cyberattacks in 2025, a 37% increase from 2024, with local governments and government agencies hit hardest. The offer follows OpenAI's September 3 pledge of $1 billion in subsidized Daybreak access, which promised expansion to "partner countries" within weeks. OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, an AI tool built to hunt down software vulnerabilities—the hidden coding flaws hackers exploit to break into a system—before Russian hackers find them first. The offer went to Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation and was announced Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.