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They will now «establish a system allowing its allies to train their artificial intelligence» on it, Reuters reports.

They are already launching a project with Palantir to produce an AI on the combat data.

The data includes «extensive battlefield information, logs of combat statistics and millions of hours of drone footage,» Reuters writes.

Training an AI for combat needs tons of real-world data, preferably from a real battlefield, not simulations — and this data will be immensely important for Ukraine’s allies, who are all busy developing combat AI drones as we speak.

Read more: Reuters, Financial Times and The Independent.

The target is to produce millions of drones in the next three years, and to build «robust supply lines» to be able to increase production «to as however much we need.»

There is a bill going through Congress for a megacenter in Texas to produce a million drones, but Driscoll doesn’t want to rely on a single company.

— We want to partner with other drone manufacturers who are using them for Amazon deliveries and all the different use cases, he says.

Meanwhile, the Replicator initiative and Valkyrie fighter drones have spent years in limbo waiting for Congressional approval.

Read more: this is from a Reuters exclusive. See also Defense News.