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US Navy signs agreement with AI firm for tuning underwater drones to detect mines in Strait of Hormuz
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The U.S. Navy signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab, a San Francisco-based startup, to develop AI tech that would allow its undersea minesweepers to learn about new and unseen mines in days instead of months.
Key facts
- The U.S. Navy signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab, a San Francisco-based startup, to develop AI tech that would allow its undersea minesweepers to learn about new and unseen mines
- The Navy is paying for the platform that lets it train, govern, and field that AI at a speed required for contested waters that block global trade and imperil sailors,” Domino CEO Thomas Robinson
- The Pentagon has increasingly been turning towards AI to bolster its capabilities, with the Department of War announcing deals with seven AI tech companies, namely SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia
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Summary
The U.S. The software will use multiple sensor suites, such as side-scan sonar and visual imaging systems, to monitor various other AI detection models operating in the field. "Mine-hunting used to be a job for ships. The Pentagon has increasingly been turning towards AI to bolster its capabilities, with the Department of War announcing deals with seven AI tech companies, namely SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, to deploy LLMs across its classified networks. The U.S. and Iran have had an on-again, off-again ceasefire in place for several weeks now.