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Tseng: Aircraft carriers and expensive jets will be destroyed quickly in major conflict
“What's really interesting to me is how the defense market is transforming. And moving away from exquisite capital assets like aircraft carriers, like ships, like very, very expensive fighter jets or very, very expensive drones. And they're moving away from it …”
Tseng: Shield AI Updated Software in 24 Hours for HIMARS Strike
“In the span of 24 hours, the engineering team re-architected the stack to not use GPS at any point in the mission. We validated it at our Texas facilities, and then we pushed it forward, and 24 hours later the team took off and then conducted a demonstration t…”
Tseng: Shield AI program allocated 60 aircraft despite commander wanting 1,000
“We're in a program of record. If you ask, you know, this was brought up. He's, they asked the commander, how many of these aircraft that shield AI produces do you think you're getting? He said, I hope we're getting a thousand. They're getting 60, right?”
Tseng: Shield AI Will License AI Pilots to Defense Hardware Makers
“When we thought about the next 10 years, the question was, like, is the future really about Shield AI building the world's best AI pilot, or is it about making a contribution to the industrial base so that, you know, everybody that's building these systems You…”
Tseng Initially Thought Defense Tech Was a 'Stupid Business'
“And, you know, I thought it was an extraordinary mission. I told you earlier, I thought it was a stupid business. And so I wished him luck and, you know, suggested that he come up with a better business to make mission impact.”
Tseng: A $1M defense contract yields 10x value via venture backing
“You know, let a, you know, one million dollar contract, you're getting 10 X in terms of the product development capabilities behind you know, the company that's working with the customer.”
Tseng: AI's key defense domains are autonomy, battle management, hypersonics, space
“In my view, I think there's really four fundamental areas in the defense, you know, space in modern warfare where it's going to be a critical game changer, and I can speak probably relatively intelligently to two of them. And so the four areas being autonomy, …”
Unprogrammed drone taught itself to exceed human-designed flight controllers
“And our chief science officer, Nate, took a quadrotor that doesn't know how to fly, that has the most advanced controllers designed by people ever. And in a period of a few days, the quadcopter, just through its own experiences, learned to reach Boundaries of …”
Autonomous robots instantly transfer learned models across hardware-diverse fleets
“And it's able to transfer that learning to every other robot in the fleet immediately, and it's also able to transfer that learning to machines that have different computation sensing and actuation constraints, and each of those machines are able to introspect…”
Sankar: Anduril and defense startups build on Palantir Warp Speed
“Andrel has built their production infrastructure entirely on top, or manufacturing production infrastructure entirely on top of our offering here. Shield AI, Epirus, Sail Drone, Sironic,”
Shield AI is deploying its AI pilot across quadcopters, VBATs, and fighter jets
“We have our AI pilot on a small quadcopter that goes inside buildings ahead of Special Operations Forces and infantry. We are putting our AI pilot on a medium-sized aircraft called the VBAT that provides an operational level of intelligence, surveillance, and …”