Manufacturing / Aerospace
Airbus: Expanding AI for technical documentation and design work
- Company
- Airbus
- Country
- Multiple countries
- Adoption stage
- Adoption announced
- Source published
- Date basis
- The date the source was published. It can differ from the date adoption started.
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The work problem
Airbus wants to widen AI use across commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space. However, this is a field with high confidentiality that includes military work, so security and sovereignty requirements are strict. Labour-intensive work such as producing technical documentation also remains as it was.
Technology and data
Airbus signed a partnership agreement with Mistral AI. The agreement secures a licence to the whole Mistral AI product range, so models can be deployed where needed, whether on in-house infrastructure or a trusted cloud. The collaboration areas were organised into four branches. In industrial operations it covers automating the production of technical documentation for commercial aircraft and helicopters. In engineering and design it uses AI based simulation, such as optimising aircraft parts, to pull development cycles forward and support engineers in development, testing and certification. In next-generation products it explores automatic object recognition with edge AI loaded onto aircraft and spacecraft, and in defence it supports cyber investigation and coding assistance through on-premises deployment.
Results
Airbus said some of the collaboration areas it set out have already started. The company explained that the agreement gives it access to Mistral AI's key researchers and influence over the AI product roadmap. The Airbus vice president for digital said this is the stage of building the foundation that will underpin current and future products and services.
Limits and open questions
Which tasks have entered formal operation, and how many users and what results there are, is not in the announcement. The names of the Mistral models chosen were not disclosed either.
Sources
- Airbus and Mistral AI partner for AI in aerospace | Airbusairbus.com, Accessed
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