乌克兰基辅——据伦敦方面的官员称，英国国防部与乌克兰的“Avengers AI Labs”公司建立了合作关系。该平台专门用于训练用于战场无人机的AI系统，这是基辅首次将其拥有的战时数据共享给一个外国政府。
KYIV, Ukraine — The British Ministry of Defence has struck a partnership with Ukraine’s Avengers AI Labs, an information-rich platform built to train AI for battlefield drones, marking the first time that Kyiv has opened up its trove of wartime data to an outside government, according to officials in London.
这一合作声明发布于英国首相安迪·伯纳姆访问基辅一个月之后。当时，伯纳姆与其他盟国领导人一同前往基辅，庆祝乌克兰独立日，并承诺继续支持这个饱受战争摧残的国家。伯纳姆与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基签署了有关AI技术的合作协议。
The announcement comes a month after U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham signed an AI deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while visiting Kyiv alongside other allies to honor Ukraine’s independence day and pledge continued support to the war-torn nation.
英国国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷在周五的声明中表示：“乌克兰是我们所有人的自由前线。在我最近访问基辅的过程中，我亲眼见证了乌克兰人民的勇气与坚韧精神。他们凭借卓越的创新能力，成功抵御了普京的非法入侵。”斯特里廷进一步强调：“英国企业能够利用这些真实的战场数据，推动国防技术的进步，既保护了本国安全，也进一步增强了乌克兰的防御能力。”
“Ukraine is the frontline of freedom for us all. On my recent visit to Kyiv, I saw first-hand the courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people,” U.K. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said in a statement on Friday. “I also saw the extraordinary innovation which is allowing them to repel Putin’s illegal and unprovoked invasion.” “This world-first access to real battlefield data will allow British companies to continue pushing the frontier of defence innovation, deterring our enemies and making us safer at home as well as further strengthening Ukraine,” Streeting said.
虽然乌克兰此前也曾与盟国分享过其从战斗中获得的AI训练数据，但这是基辅首次允许外国政府访问其用于推动AI创新的基础设施。
Ukraine has shared its combat-derived AI training data with allies in the past, but this is the first time that Kyiv has granted a foreign country access to the machine-learning infrastructure driving its rapid AI innovations seen across the front.
根据乌克兰官方的介绍，“Avengers AI Labs”拥有一个包含超过500万张战场图像的标注数据集，以及涵盖大量军事目标的传感器数据（包括坦克、火炮、防空系统、步兵、Shahed无人机、侦察无人机等）。这些数据主要来源于乌克兰的DELTA战斗管理系统。
Avengers AI Labs holds an annotated dataset of more than 5 million battlefield frames, plus sensor data covering millions of object detections — including tanks, artillery, air defense, infantry, Shahed drones, reconnaissance UAVs, and more) — built mainly from Ukraine’s DELTA battle-management system, according to a release by Ukrainian officials.
根据乌克兰国防部的消息，相关数据已被匿名处理，并经过延迟后才会被公开，以避免危及仍在前线作战的人员的安全。乌克兰国防部还表示，英国的相关企业也在一个受保护的区域内开展工作，这些企业无法下载原始数据集。
Data is anonymized and released on a delay to avoid endangering personnel still fighting, according to Ukraine’s Defence Ministry. U.K. companies also work inside a secure perimeter that doesn’t allow them to download the underlying dataset, according to Ukraine’s MOD.
英国国防部目前正在邀请多达十几家公司提交提案，探讨他们如何使用该平台——尤其是如何开发能够在通信中断或卫星导航系统失效的情况下仍能保持系统正常运行的技术。
The British defense ministry is now inviting up to a dozen companies to submit proposals for how they would use the platform, especially to develop tech that would enable full functionality even when communications are degraded or satellite navigation is unavailable.
“这正是特别工作组成立的目的：既要支持我们的盟友乌克兰，同时也要增强英国自身的主权能力，”英国人工智能部长卡尼什卡·纳拉扬在周五的声明中表示。
“It is exactly the kind of practical partnership the Taskforce was set up to drive, supporting our ally Ukraine while strengthening sovereign capability here in Britain,” U.K. AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said in Friday’s statement.