Defense Startups Palantir, Anduril to Save Data From Battlefield to Train AI Models
- Deal signals growing importance to military of AI technology
- Startups say they’re open to other companies joining effort
Anduril sells its reusable rockets, drones and submarines and related software platform Lattice to the US and allied countries.
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Software company Palantir Technologies Inc. and weapons maker Anduril Industries Inc. plan to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in the US military and are inviting other companies to join the effort.
Under an agreement announced Friday, battlefield information created by sensors, vehicles, robots and weapons will be collected by Anduril’s Lattice software and then pulled into a secure Palantir platform that will prepare the data for use in AI training and development. The data gathered would including information classified at the highest levels of secrecy.