(CNN) — The White House is establishing a new AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to help coordinate cybersecurity defenses across critical infrastructure. Industries and critical infrastructure are racing to catch up with new AI models with increasingly advanced abilities that can find and exploit (but also defend against) cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Some AI companies have even held off widely releasing their most advanced models to allow key partners time to patch vulnerabilities before the models are widely available. The White House’s clearinghouse, dubbed Gold Eagle, is a joint project across the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. AI and cybersecurity companies, along with critical infrastructure providers like utilities and banks, will use the platform to communicate and coordinate their efforts. “These new capabilities make vulnerability discovery at a scale … that we have not seen before,” a senior White House official told reporters during a briefing on Tuesday. The goal of the new clearinghouse is to “deconflict and make sure resources are not being wasted, fixing or scanning for the same vulnerabilities, that those vulnerabilities are validated,” the official added, “and then a team of industry and government engineers are working to triage, prioritize and fix those vulnerabilities.” The White House declined to specify which companies are part of this project, describing them as “open-source software partners and American critical infrastructure companies.” Open-source software’s source code is publicly available, allowing anyone to freely view, use, modify and distribute it. The most well-known AI models from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, are closed-source. Open-source software is ubiquitous but often run by volunteers who might not have the money and time to secure the code. In 2021, a critical bug in open-source software left hundreds of millions of devices around the world vulnerable to hacking and triggered a frantic response from