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Pentagon Office of Strategic Capital has 200 billion dollars in loan capacity
“So what that does is it gives government loans to companies that can scale a technology that already exists. So we'll take a minute. It's for the defense industrial base. Half of it, half of two hundred billion dollars. So a hundred billion dollars is to make …”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 19:17 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
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Office of Strategic Capital has $200B for defense and critical minerals
“Half of it, half of two hundred billion dollars. So a hundred billion dollars is to make sure that we have solid rocket motors, brushless motors, batteries, all of the components that go into our weapon systems. The other half of it's for critical minerals, an…”
Emil Michael Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 20:49 America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
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The Pentagon will not spend $100B building in-house frontier AI models
“For these frontier AI companies, for example, I'm not gonna try to build our own model here and spend a hundred billion dollars. Why would I? Why wouldn't I work with the best minds in industry, have them make something that, for our use case, that builds on w…”
Emil Michael Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 25:17 America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
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Pentagon Is Deploying Frontier AI Integrated With Intelligence to Warfighters
“I'm not only taking the frontier models and just making them available. I'm doing it across classification levels. I'm combining some of the most, you know, important data that the United States has from an intelligence standpoint, we're deploying it to warfig…”
Emil Michael Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 25:57 America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
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Emil Michael: Pentagon is deploying AI across corporate, intelligence, and warfighting tiers
“So the Google win was just getting everyone the basic access to AI so they could get familiar using it and understanding it. Then we're going to do it. Then I would say that's a corporate use case, right? Like any big organization. Then we're going to do the s…”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 10:08 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
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Pentagon will not spend $100B building custom frontier AI models
“For these frontier AI companies, for example, I'm not gonna try to build our own model here and spend a hundred billion dollars. Why wouldn't I work with the best minds in industry, have them make something that, for our use case, that builds on what they've a…”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 23:53 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
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Pentagon is deploying frontier AI models across classification levels for warfighters
“I'm not only taking the frontier models and just making them available. I'm doing it across classification levels. I'm combining some of the most, you know, important data that the United States has from an intelligence standpoint, we're deploying it to war fi…”
Emil Michael Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 24:33 Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
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