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V-BAT / Hivemind

Shield AI · #17 most active of 19 in Drones & Air Mobility

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Hivemind autonomy pilots the V-BAT VTOL aircraft and third-party jets without GPS or comms links.

Current version

Hivemind 2025

Entry cost

Defense contract pricing

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • GPS-denied autonomy
  • No comms link required
  • VTOL fixed-wing
  • Third-party airframe ports

Pricing

Defense contract pricing

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Hivemind reinforcement-learned pilot

    Shield AI

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Onboard RL policies
  • Edge compute
  • F-16 flight demos

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

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    Hivemind autonomy ported to additional third-party airframes

    —Multi-airframe autonomy