Drones create the kind of data AI labs cannot scrape from the web.

500K hours of real drone footage from Ukraine are now being packaged for AI model training.

These are full-motion video captured in messy combat conditions, where smoke, weather, terrain, shadows, heat signatures, and fast movement break many clean demos.

The data wall will be much less of a problem when drones keep turning the physical world into labeled video.

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