NSO co-founder urges governments to build sovereign AI

Shalev Hulio, co-founder and former CEO of NSO Group, the maker of Pegasus spyware, has urged governments to develop their own AI models rather than hand national security data to US AI firms. His new company Dream offers sovereign AI models for governments, has raised $400 million and was valued at $3 billion.

• Hulio: every government should have its own AI model
• Dream raised $400 million and was valued at $3 billion in 2026
• Dream's products sold to over a dozen countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East
• Dream's models are trained on customer data and run on 1–3 GPUs