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Pegasus

software

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1 use 1 mention 1 critical
Last discussed Aug 1, 2026

A sophisticated spyware tool that can infiltrate mobile phones to monitor communications and activities.

How Pegasus compares

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BERT Direct rival
Google's language understanding model

Both are language models Shiv's team fine-tuned together before the LLM era.

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Shiv Rao

"We started our company and a lot of the tech that we leveraged at first was we were fine-tuning BERT models BERT and Bert Longformer and Pegasus and T5."

Used alongside BERT, Longformer, and T5 before LLM era

What creators say

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Shiv Rao
uses
Used for: Early AI model foundation for summarizing healthcare conversations vs: Used alongside BERT, Longformer, and T5 before LLM era

"We started our company and a lot of the tech that we leveraged at first was we were fine-tuning BERT models BERT and Bert Longformer and Pegasus and T5."

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Bill Thompson
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"Pegasus is probably the king of that. It's basically a persistent implant that lives on the phone. In its earliest iterations it required you click some type of link — there would be a phishing element to it. It was stored in a place where it wasn..."

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Bill Thompson
critical

"It was a a persistent implant on cell phones for people. initially it was you had to click it. It was a click. Initially it was a click a click and then it became a non-click exploit"

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