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Pentagon inks pacts with seven AI companies for classified military work
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The Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence ( AI ) companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.
Key facts
- It is seeking a $25bn valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported in March, and has received funding from Nvidia as well as 1789 Capital, the venture fund where Donald Trump Jr is a partner
- On Friday, the department announced that the companies mentioned will be integrated into what it called the Pentagon’s “Impact Levels 6 and 7” network environments to “streamline data synthesis — It has requested $54bn for the development of autonomous weapons alone
- The Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence ( AI ) companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services
Summary
“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the Pentagon said in statement. The companies had agreed to the US military’s deployment of their technology for “any lawful use”, according to the Pentagon. The US Department of Defense is budgeting tens of billions of dollars for numerous technology firms’ cutting edge programs related to intelligence, drone warfare, classified and unclassified information networks and much more. One of the firms, Reflection AI, has yet to release a publicly available model.