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Announcing Hive’s Partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit

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Hive is excited to announce that we have been awarded a Department of Defense (DoD) contract for deepfake detection of video, image, and audio content. This groundbreaking partnership marks a significant milestone in protecting our national security from the risks of synthetic media and AI-generated disinformation.

Combating Synthetic Media and Disinformation

Rapid strides in technology have made AI manipulation the weapon of choice for numerous adversarial entities. For the Department of Defense, a digital safeguard is necessary in order to protect the integrity of vital information systems and stay vigilant against the future spread of misinformation, threats, and conflicts at a national scale.

Hive’s reputation as frontline defenders against AI-generated deception makes us uniquely equipped to handle such threats. Not only do we understand the stakes at hand, we have been and continue to be committed to delivering unmatched detection tools that can mitigate these risks with accuracy and speed.

Under our initial two-year contract, Hive will partner with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to support the intelligence community with our state-of-the-art deepfake detection models, deployed in an offline, on-premise environment and capable of detecting AI-generated video, image, and audio content. We are honored to join forces with the Department of Defense in this critical mission.

Our Cutting-Edge Tools

To best empower the U.S. defense forces against potential threats, we have provided five proprietary models that can detect whether an input is AI-generated or a deepfake.

If an input is flagged as AI-generated, it was likely created using a generative AI engine. Whereas, a deepfake is a real image or video where one or more of the faces in the original image has been swapped with another person’s face.

The models we’ve provided are, as follows:

  1. AI-Generated Detection (Image and Video), which detects if an image or video is AI-generated.
  2. AI-Generated Detection (Audio), which detects if an audio clip is AI-generated.
  3. Deepfake Detection (Image), which detects if an image contains one or more faces that are deepfaked.
  4. Deepfake Detection (Video), which detects if a video contains one or more faces that are deepfaked.
  5. Liveness (Image and Video), which detects whether a face in an image or video is primary (exists in the primary image) or secondary (exists in an image, screen, or painting inside of the primary image).

Forging a Path Forward

Even as new threats continue to emerge and escalate, Hive continues to be steadfast in our commitment to provide the world’s most capable AI models for validating the safety and authenticity of digital content.

For more details, you can find our recent press release here and the DIU’s press release here. If you’re interested in learning more about what we do, please reach out to our sales team (sales@thehive.ai) or contact us here for further questions.