Gray Swan, the leader in AI safety and security solutions, today launched new enhancements to the Arena, its global adversarial testing and red-teaming platform, making it easier for anyone, from experienced security researchers to first-time AI red teamers, to test limits of frontier labs' most advanced AI models.
Gray Swan's Arena is world's largest AI red-teaming community comprised of more than 15,000 AI enthusiasts and practitioners who test AI systems to uncover vulnerabilities and failure modes before nefarious actors can exploit them. Through competitive challenges, participants identify weaknesses in frontier models, helping developers build safer, more robust systems while earning prizes and building careers.
The new Arena experience lowers barrier through more intuitive, game-like environment designed for participants across skill levels. Novice red teamers can learn and practice alongside experienced researchers, while people from creative and nontraditional backgrounds can bring new approaches that conventional security testing may miss.
Additional enhancements include more ways to learn and compete with beginner-friendly ongoing challenges, credentials to demonstrate skills via training certificates, path to professional red teaming for top performers invited to join real-world testing engagements, and global community connection via Discord.
Alongside newly designed Arena, Gray Swan announced Indirect Prompt Injection Black competition, largest Arena challenge to date, with $300,000 in prizes sponsored by Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, and Reflection AI. Competition challenges participants to uncover indirect prompt injection vulnerabilities across new scenarios released each week.
Between October 15, 2026, and November 5, 2026, Gray Swan will run IPI Black challenge, releasing new wave of scenarios each week and giving participants repeated opportunities to anonymously test new models, uncover vulnerabilities, and compete for prizes. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Findings from Arena challenges extend beyond competitions. Gray Swan uses data generated through Arena to develop benchmarks and evaluations that help researchers understand emerging AI risks and assess safety and security of new models. Research and benchmarks have been cited in new system cards and model launch materials from leading frontier AI labs.
Insights from Arena also power Gray Swan's enterprise AI security platform. Shade uses emerging attack techniques from Arena to continuously test AI systems for vulnerabilities, while also generating its own multi-turn attack techniques. Cygnal uses insights to detect and block attacks at runtime, enforcing policies that keep AI systems operating within defined boundaries. Together, Arena, Shade and Cygnal create continuous feedback loop between discovering vulnerabilities, testing enterprise AI systems against emerging threats and enforcing safe behavior in production.
About Gray Swan
Gray Swan is empowering the world to use AI safely and securely. Founded by leading AI security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the company provides automated adversarial risk assessment, continuous red-teaming, and runtime AI security monitoring and protection. Gray Swan is trusted by world's leading AI labs and enterprises to deploy AI with confidence. Company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.
