, /PRNewswire/ -- MindHYVE.ai™, a California-based artificial intelligence company competing with OpenAI and Google in the AI space with a unique suite of large reasoning models and AGI agents has announced a $22 million foreign direct investment into Pakistan to establish it as a global hub for applied AI innovation.

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The announcement was made by Founder & CEO Belal Faruki during the Digital Foreign Direct Investment (DFDI) Conference, which took place April 29–30, 2025, in Islamabad, Pakistan, in the presence of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, federal ministers, international delegates, and global tech leaders.

"This isn't outsourcing—this is digital nation-building," said Belal Faruki. "We're not just bringing capital—we're bringing our most advanced agentic, autonomous systems, large reasoning models, AI knowhow and co-creating sovereign AI solutions with Pakistan."

Key Strategic Initiatives

MindHYVE.ai™ outlined a five-year plan to:

Pakistan: The First AGI Frontier

This investment represents the first national-scale deployment of MindHYVE.ai™'s U.S.-engineered agentic systems—placing Pakistan at the forefront of sovereign AI development.

The MindHYVE.ai™ delegation was later hosted at a private dinner by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister's House, where long-term digital infrastructure partnerships were further explored.

"Pakistan has the population, the talent, and now the technology," said Belal Faruki. "This is digital self-determination in action."

About MindHYVE.ai™

Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, MindHYVE.ai™ builds domain-specific AGI agents, autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic systems, and domain specific large reasoning models to transform national infrastructure and industry through intelligent automation and decision systems.

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From left: Arslan Ali, Lead AI Visualization Engineer; Kevin Welsh, VP Business Development; Belal Faruki, Founder & CEO, Mindhyve.ai™; Maliha Hasan, VP of Operations; Mark Hopkins, VP Agentic Strategy; Waqas Tariq, Managing Director, Pakistan; Jahanzeb Ahmed, VP Operations, Pakistan — at the Digital Foreign Direct Investment (DFDI) Forum 2025 in Islamabad, Pakistan.