Defence AI Country Watch: eight countries

Official sources for eight countries were reviewed. Wartime claims without commercial announcements or independent corroboration were not treated as confirmed defence adoption.

No significant credible official defence-AI update was identified in the reporting period for any of the eight countries. For the United States, national-security research sits in the DOE Genesis portfolio, but that is not evidence of operational military deployment. For China, verification is limited by state-controlled information and low independent access; for Russia and Ukraine, wartime claims without independent confirmation were excluded. Older programmes were not restated without new material developments.

For India, the HCLTech-Sarvam project is civilian sovereign-cloud infrastructure, not defence adoption. Where official access and independent verification were severely limited, no significant credible official update was identified either.