Dream Ranks as World's Most Powerful Cyber-Defence AI on Global Benchmark

Artificial intelligence and cyber-defence firm Dream announced that its platform has secured the top ranking as the "most powerful cyber defence AI in the world" according to the CyberGym benchmark. Evaluated across 1,507 tasks spanning 188 open-source projects, the benchmark assesses how effectively AI agents manage real-world vulnerabilities.

With operational offices located in Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, and Vienna, Dream reported that its Hero and Hercules platform achieved an impressive 96.6 per cent differential validation score. The Hero system functions as a sovereign-grade, autonomous modular cyber-defence research team driven by the defensive cyber model known as Hercules. Together, these systems assist security teams in safeguarding government assets and critical infrastructure at scale, providing capabilities in firmware validation, malware unpacking, and vulnerability assessment.

"The model and harness are built exclusively for defensive security teams, helping organisations find and fix their own vulnerabilities or solve other complex challenges before attackers do," stated Dream. The Hercules model is a specialized cybersecurity system trained on thousands of authentic vulnerability research trajectories. Designed explicitly for governmental use, the architecture operates entirely on-premises to ensure that network configurations, firmware images, and source codes remain strictly under organizational control.

Sovereign AI has emerged as a cornerstone for advanced technology strategies, ensuring that sensitive digital infrastructures—including government data, defense applications, financial systems, and healthcare—adhere to domestic regulations rather than relying on foreign cloud providers. Co-founded by former chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz, Dream secured $260 million in a June funding round, which elevated its total valuation to $3 billion and brought its overall funding to $412 million. The financing round was co-led by US venture capital firms Bicycle Capital and Group 11, alongside contributions from Antler, Bain Capital Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, and additional investors.

"National security defence today must adapt to a fast-changing reality," Dream noted in its latest statement. "Humans cannot be scaled with data centres and compute. But they can and must be supported as cyber-defence enters the age of the infinite attacker."