Helsing launches a European alternative to Palantir's military AI.
German defense technology company Helsing unveiled Clarity on November 11, a military artificial intelligence platform presented as a sovereign European alternative to US vendors such as Palantir, guaranteeing military control over their data, models and operations.
The vast reserves of Ukraine battlefield imagery collected throughout Russia's full-scale invasion have become a resource for developing military artificial intelligence, raising questions about which governments and companies can use the data and who owns the resulting technology.
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