Meta collaborates with arms manufacturer on AI-powered gadget for military use
Meta and Defense Startup Anduril Collaborate on AI tech for Soldiers
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has partnered with defense startup Anduril to develop AI-equipped technologies for soldier gear. In a joint statement on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the collaboration, highlighting the company's decade-long advancement in AI and augmented reality (AR).
The partnership aims to create advanced military AI and AR technologies, specifically designing, building, and fielding integrated extended reality (XR) products such as glasses, goggles, visors, and AR/VR helmets. These devices are intended to enhance soldiers' perception, provide real-time battlefield intelligence, and improve situational awareness.
Anduril's data analytics platform, Lattice, will be integrated with Meta's technology. Lattice is an AI-assisted command and control system that offers real-time battle zone information for decision-making. The collaboration seeks to turn warfighters into technologically empowered soldiers, a term coined by Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey as "technomancers."
This partnership is part of Meta and Anduril's efforts to compete for the U.S. Army's next-generation mixed-reality heads-up display program known previously as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). The goal is to offer more capable and cost-effective equipment by leveraging high-performance commercial technology adapted for military use.
The collaboration between Meta and Anduril promises to significantly boost soldiers' operational effectiveness and situational awareness by enabling better interaction with autonomous systems and providing enhanced perception on the battlefield.
[1] The term "technomancer" refers to highly technologically empowered soldiers.[3] and [4] Source: Specific information or quotes from Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg (not in original article)[5] Source: ntv.de, lme/AFP
- The partnership between Meta and defense startup Anduril, referred to by Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey as "technomancers," is designed to create advanced military AI and AR technologies.
- The collaboration seeks to leverage high-performance commercial technology, specifically Meta's decade-long advancement in AI and augmented reality (AR), to offer cost-effective equipment for soldiers in the U.S. Army's next-generation mixed-reality heads-up display program.
- The goal of this partnership is to improve soldiers' operational effectiveness and situational awareness by enabling better interaction with autonomous systems and providing enhanced perception on the battlefield, embracing both technological and military aspects in the industry.
