{
 "slug": "uk-mod-ukraine-avengers-dataset-twelve-firms-drone-swarm-ai",
 "title": "UK Opens Ukraine's Avengers Dataset of Six Million-Plus Object Detections to up to Twelve British Firms for AI Drone-Swarm Models",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/uk-mod-ukraine-avengers-dataset-twelve-firms-drone-swarm-ai/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/uk-mod-ukraine-avengers-dataset-twelve-firms-drone-swarm-ai/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-09-25T17:13:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-30T17:13:12.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLondon, 25 September 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * The Ministry of Defence launched on 25 September the first competition under the UK–Ukraine AI partnership signed in Kyiv on 24 August: up to twelve UK companies get access to the Avengers AI Labs database to build AI models for drone swarms. Companies are to be selected \"in just a matter of weeks\" and start exploiting the data soon after\n * The database holds daylight and thermal imagery and video from Ukrainian uncrewed aircraft, with se",
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  "russia",
  "ukraine"
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 "domains": [
  "industry"
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 "capabilities": [
  "uncrewed-autonomy"
 ],
 "tags": [
  "defense-industry",
  "drones-uav",
  "russia-ukraine-conflict"
 ],
 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "russia",
  "ukraine",
  "united-kingdom"
 ],
 "inferred": {
  "countries": [
   "russia",
   "ukraine",
   "united-kingdom"
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  "domains": [],
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}