DARPA

“The largest alloys program was the mock program. It was run by DARPA NGE Aerospace. They did 500 alloys in about 12 months. They did a bunch of kind of AI and simulations on the front end of that, and then they synthesized 500 new alloys in that whole year.”

“Every one of these companies is built on a technology that was funded by American middle-class taxpayers, whether it was DARPA, whether Elon Musk got a three hundred fifty million dollar tax-free loan.”

“One of the things that they're working on that's public is they're trying to use biology to synthesize critical minerals.”

“We are in, in my mind, Past a system integration view of the world where you simply say, I bring this in here, I bring this in here, I tie them together and do it. I'll give you an example that's very old, ah, from speech recognition and machine translation, l…”

“So I think rare earths, Are gonna be solved way faster than anyone thinks.”

“And they have just graduated to the final phase of our program. They're one of two companies to have reached that point.”

“About a decade ago, we recognized that electrochemistry had the ability to literally break anything , which means it could also deform anything. Therefore, we used electrochemistry to produce mechanical actuators, and one of the applications of those mechanica…”

“Every one of these companies is built on a technology that was funded by American middle class taxpayers, whether it was DARPA, whether Elon Musk got a three hundred fifty million dollar tax-free loan.”

“Every one of these companies is built on a technology that was funded by American middle class taxpayers, whether it was DARPA, whether Elon Musk got a three hundred fifty million dollar tax-free loan. He hates subsidies, but he was there for it when we gave h…”

“And he put a ton of his own money into Palantir. He had no investors. He had a small investment from DARPA.”

“And that's when the first time we ever used a lidar, which is a type of self-driving technology that all the cars or many of the cars have, it was already existed, but it was applied to cars for the first time ever.”

“I worked at DARPA and I deployed to Afghanistan. I was never a spy.”

“I think there is a point in time. Where private startups can take the last 20 or 30%, but I think about this like the internet, which is you needed DARPA to build V-one, and then it could be handed over to private industry. And I think fusion, when we look bac…”

“Electric propulsion was just coming into its own for aviation. And it took longer than for cars, because everything for airplanes has to be lighter and more reliable. But batteries were becoming good enough, and motors were becoming lightweight enough, where y…”

“He actually not only worked at Sandia, he was the head of Sandia. Oh, wow. He ran the U.S. Nuclear weapons program. And before that, he was one of the original members of DARPA.”

“So our solution is that we have a set of techniques that's, ah, been coming out of academia, out of DARPA, the DoD, where I personally came out of, and, ah, to enable computing on data while it's encrypted.”

“I personally have been working on it for a good 10 years or so primarily with support of DARPA and the other ARPAs in collaboration with folks at MIT and a number of defense contractors”

“DARPA is currently working on an automated exoskeleton that will have AI capabilities for soldiers, and they deliberately came up with the acronym TALOS.”

“The internet wouldn't exist without the government. You know, it was the government 50 years ago that funded DARPA that created the internet. It was the government Through the judicial system that broke up the phone company, you know, Ma Bell, which unleashed …”

“The KGB's just put money into this. IAPA and DARPA have got money going into this stuff.”