The start-up «Patronus AI» wins over the DDPS in the Cyber Start-up Challenge 2024
The Cyber Start-up Challenge of the Cyber-Defence Campus is held every year to find relevant start-ups and innovative technologies in the cyber area. In this year’s Cyber Start-up Challenge contest, the start-up «Patronus AI» won over the jury with a platform for automated evaluation and safeguarding of LLMs. In 2025, the start-up will be able to demonstrate its solution to the DDPS in practice in a feasibility study.
This year, the Cyber Start-up Challenge took place for the fifth time. The Cyber-Defence Campus called for innovative solutions in the area of «Safety of artificial intelligence» in May 2024. The start-ups presented their solutions to a jury, which consisted of experts from the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS). This year’s winners were «Patronus AI». In 2025, the start-up will have the opportunity to demonstrate its solution to the DDPS in a feasibility study under real conditions.
Safety of artificial intelligence
«Patronus AI» is a company that has specialised in the automated evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) as well as protective measures and safety solutions. This platform enables companies and authorities to assess and compare the performance of LLMs in real scenarios. It offers comprehensive functions for creating extensive test cases, for monitoring hallucinations and for preventing other unexpected and uncertain behaviours.
The use of «Patronus AI» helps customers to save time in manual evaluation, accelerate development as well as trust in generative AI applications from the prototype to the production and to minimise the negative risks of hallucinations and prompt injections. In addition, the platform offers in-depth analyses and precise feedback mechanisms based on the latest research in the area of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Cyber-Defence Campus of armasuisse Science and Technology will hold the next Cyber Start-up Challenge during the coming year to once again promote innovative technologies and ideas.
