According to the report, the intelligence came from a fast growing new market: Chinese firms, some with links to the People’s Liberation Army, marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data to market information they say can “expose” the movements of US forces.
Many of these firms have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use and are now capitalizing on the war, the report added.
Private firms have long used open-source data, including flight trackers, satellite imagery and shipping data, to generate market intelligence. But the growing AI capability of Chinese firms is making these tools more powerful, underscoring the growing challenge of concealing US military movements from adversaries.
MizarVision, a Hangzhou-based firm founded in 2021, is one of the companies that uses a mix of Western and Chinese data filtered through AI to catalogue activity at US bases in the Middle East, track naval movements and identify the position and number of specific aircraft and missile defense systems, the Post said.
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It detailed the buildup of US forces in the Middle East on the eve of the launch of assault, including the passage of the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike groups. It also shared detailed breakdowns of the number and types of aircraft massing at Israel’s Ovda Air Base, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base and Qatar’s al-Udeid Air Base.
Satellite photos posted by MizarVision appear to include some commercially available imagery from US and European providers, including Vantor and Airbus. []
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
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