Avengers AI Labs

Avengers AI Labs is a military data repository where Ukraine has stored real combat photos and videos captured by drones and sensors since 2022. It holds around 5 million images, and because all of it comes from actual battlefields, it's considered far more accurate than computer-generated synthetic training data.

How it operates is closer to a reading room than a lending library. Just as you can only read a book inside a designated room rather than take it home, Ukraine does not let this data leave the country. Instead, approved foreign companies or researchers can only view the material and train AI inside a secured room. Once training is complete, Ukraine still retains ownership of the resulting AI.

A detection system built with this data is reportedly able to identify enemy equipment captured in drone footage with about 70% accuracy, taking 2.2 seconds per object. It recently drew attention when the UK became the first foreign government granted access to this repository.

In articles, it appears in phrasing like "Ukraine's battlefield data platform 'Avengers AI Labs' has opened up to UK researchers and companies." A common misunderstanding here is that the data itself moved to the UK — in reality, the data never leaves Ukraine; only access is granted, and only inside a secured room.