Dream says its platform has been ranked 'most powerful cyber-defence AI' globally

Dream, a company specializing in artificial intelligence and cyber defense, has announced that its platform has been ranked as the most powerful cyber defense AI globally on the CyberGym benchmark. The benchmark evaluates how well AI agents manage real-world vulnerabilities, assessing performance on 1,507 tasks across 188 open-source projects. Dream's headquarters are located in Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, and Vienna.

Dream's Hercules and Hero platforms secured a 96.6% differential validation, placing them at the top position. Hero is an autonomous modular cyber-defense research team, powered by the defensive cyber model Hercules, assisting security teams in safeguarding government and critical infrastructure on a large scale. They provide expertise in vulnerability assessment, malware unpacking, and firmware validation.

The model and harness are specifically designed for defensive security teams, enabling organizations to identify and rectify their own vulnerabilities or resolve complex challenges before attackers do, according to Dream. Hercules, a cybersecurity-specialized model, was trained on thousands of real vulnerability research trajectories.

Since it was built from the ground up for governments, the system operates entirely on-premises, ensuring that source code, firmware images, and network configurations remain under the organization's control.

The idea of sovereign AI has gained prominence in various technology strategies, focusing on regulating highly sensitive digital operations like healthcare, financial systems, defense applications, and government data with domestic laws instead of foreign cloud providers. Dream, co-founded by former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, raised $260 million in a funding round in June, valuing the company at $3 billion.

This funding, totaling $412 million, included contributions from US venture capital firms Bicycle Capital and Group 11, along with Antler, Bain Capital Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, and other investors. Dream emphasized that national security defense must adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape, stating that humans cannot be scaled with data centers and compute, but they can and must be supported as cyber-defense enters the era of the infinite attacker.