AIxCC Part 3 - Buttercup's Hybrid Approach: Trail of Bits' Journey to Second Place in AIxCC

In the final episode of our AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) series, CRob sits down with Michael Brown, Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits, to discuss their runner-up cybersecurity reasoning system, Buttercup. Michael shares how their team took a hybrid approach - combining large language models with conventional software analysis tools like fuzzers - to create a system that exceeded even their own expectations. Learn how Trail of Bits made Buttercup fully open source and accessible to ru...