Bring your AI, we’ll bring the battle experience

• Zelenskyy said the tech center’s artificial intelligence capabilities and Ukraine’s wartime drone experience could be “powerful.”

• Ukraine has built an arsenal of drones that has wowed the world as it fought against Russia’s occupation.

Ukraine has experience in fighting and defends himself using drone. American tech companies have the firepower of artificial intelligence. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the combination of the two could change the world.

“American tech companies have a lot of interesting artificial intelligence technologies that we don’t have. And we have a lot of things that they don’t have because of our experience in the battlefield,” Zelenskyy said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. he said. “I think this collaboration is huge and could be the strongest collaboration in the world.”

Ukraine has built an arsenal of drone and anti-drone technology on a shoestring budget out of necessity and has attracted the global defense industry since Russia launched its full-scale invasion four years ago, largely because it has held the line despite its weak status.

Ukraine said three home grown drone types It said earlier this month that it had developed a fixed-wing system that would allow it to attack near Moscow. medium range attack drone This helped Russia attack areas it once considered safe. His I learned valuable lessons In this process, drone units need to be constantly on the move and command centers need to be buried underground to protect them.

Meanwhile, the AI ​​craze in the United States, combined with a Department of Defense eager to develop new autonomous military technology, is fueling the growth of the Silicon Valley defense technology industry. Companies such as Anduril, led by Palmer Luckey, which produces the Oculus virtual reality headset that Facebook acquired in 2014, raised billions developing new crewless weapon systems.

Ukraine has since become a major potential testing ground for some of this new hardware.

state-sponsored”testing in Ukraine“Hundreds of international companies applied to the program, which was launched last year, to test drones, counter-drone systems, artificial intelligence, electronic warfare vehicles, maritime unmanned aerial vehicles and land robots in Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said on Sunday that he wants to deepen this symbiotic relationship even more soon. His message to Silicon Valley: Stop talking and start building.

“We need to negotiate now,” Zelenskyy said on Sunday. “I don’t want to talk about it. I just want to take the necessary steps and do it as quickly as possible.”

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