New Delhi, July 22 -- OpenAI and Hugging Face are strengthening security measures after an internal evaluation found that an AI model identified and chained together vulnerabilities, compromising Hugging Face's infrastructure during testing, OpenAI said.

The company said the incident took place during an internal benchmark to assess advanced cyber capabilities. Production safety classifiers had been intentionally disabled to measure the model's maximum capability in a controlled environment.

According to OpenAI, the models identified and linked vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's production infrastructure to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face's production database.

"All evidence suggests tha...