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OpenAI & US Defense contractor Anduril to co-develop military AI & AI drones

The venture plans to bring together OpenAI’s advanced machine-learning models and Anduril’s expertise in military hardware and software, using data from real-world drone operations to train AI systems Both OpenAI and Anduril have assured they’re focusing on using AI responsibly. Image Credit: Reuters OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, is teaming up with US defence contractor Anduril in a partnership designed …

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OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, is getting into the business of war. The world’s most valuable AI company has agreed to work with Anduril Industries, a leading defense-tech startup, to add its technology to systems the U.S. military uses to counter drone attacks. The alliance between Anduril and OpenAI might also help buffer the AI company’s CEO, Sam …

OpenAI partners with defence firm Anduril to use AI in national security missions

Defence technology company Anduril Industries and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Wednesday announced a partnership to develop and deploy advanced artificial intelligence solutions for national security missions. The companies said the partnership will focus on improving the United States' counter-unmanned aircraft systems and their ability to detect, assess and respond to potentially lethal aerial threats in real time. "Our partnership with Anduril …

OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in the world, said today that it has entered a partnership with Anduril, a defense startup that makes missiles, drones, and software for the United States military. “OpenAI builds AI to benefit as many people as possible, and supports US-led efforts to ensure the technology upholds democratic …

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Weapons startup Anduril hits $14-billion valuation, plans huge new facility

Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. has raised $1.5 billion in a new funding round and plans to spend hundreds of millions on a new facility to manufacture its rockets, underwater vehicles and other autonomous weapons systems at greater scale and speed. Influential Palmer Luckey: Millennial slayer of U.S. defense giants Anduril founder and Peter Thiel protégé Palmer Luckey is …

A red phone sits on Palmer Luckey’s desk at the Costa Mesa headquarters of his military tech company, Anduril Industries. ‘We are preemptively being invited to conversations to help solve problems — most companies will just never get that call.’ — Palmer Luckey Luckey’s company has also developed a tube-launched drone with a “loitering munition” model and bought a rocket …

When ChatGPT rose to fame in 2022, it led to a sudden surge in interest in AI. Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR at the age of 20, revealed in an interview with the Financial Times that his new startup is working on AI weapons that can help win any war. Anduril's products, like autonomous sentry towers and attack drones, …

Anduril’s reusable Roadrunner jet drone. White House officials met with executives from Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Fortem, Skydio and other defense companies Monday to discuss battlefield technologies that can aid Ukraine in its bid to combat Russia’s invasion. National Security Council aides spent hours with more than a dozen companies in the defense, tech and venture capital industries to talk …

Anduril’s Roadrunner jet drone is about 5½ feet tall and can hit its target or return to its launch spot for another attempt. A SOCOM budget estimation document from March of this year shows that CUxS is short for “Counter Unmanned Aerial System,” and includes a $19.15-million line item for the 2024 fiscal year “to accelerate Roadrunner Group3 interceptor development, …

Palmer Luckey’s Anduril builds huge new HQ in former Times printing plant

Anduril, the defense tech company started by virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey in 2017, is moving into a new corporate campus in Costa Mesa — in the shell of the former Orange County bureau and printing press of the Los Angeles Times. Anduril is not sharing financial details of the deal, but Matt Grimm, the company’s co-founder and chief operating …

Behind Anduril’s Effort to Create an Operating System for War

Anduril’s New Drone Offers to Inject More AI Into Warfare

This spring, a team of small drones, each resembling a small, sensor-laden helicopter, scoured a lush stretch of wilderness near Irvine, California. They were props for early test flights of a prototype military drone stuffed with artificial intelligence—the latest product from Anduril, a defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, the creator of Oculus Rift. Luckey says the drones can carry …