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Fresh off the jet. New sign going up at Forge
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Raw. Behind the scenes. Explainer. 🎥🤖 🚨 The first agentic military strike. 🚨 A few weeks ago we showed something that had never been demonstrated before: A team of AI agents conducting a coordinated military strike on a target. In the explainer video below, I'm sharing a look under the hood at how it actually works. System architecture: 🚙 1 UGV carrying 2 one-way attack drones 🧠 7 AI agents total • 1 Orchestrator agent (~300B parameters) • 6 asset agents Each asset runs two agents: • Reasoning agent – planning, decision making, tool use • VLA agent – perception and vehicle control trajectories (~1B parameters) Tool use is also used all over the place on orchestration and platform autonomy. Agents call tools on traditional platform autonomy (e.g. flight controllers) when that makes sense vs. direct control (e.g. unlatch and takeoff command). Systems: • Orchestrator runs in an orchestration compute cluster on a set of H100s. • Each edge asset has 2x Nvidia inference chips, some as low as 25W. • Orchestrator does not have any implementation insight into assets. • Treats them as third-party assets. • It reads the ICD for the function calls, similar to MCP. Shared cognition across the system: 📡 All agents share their thoughts across the network 🧠 Memory stored as text + short-term video context 👁️ Systems maintain shared situational awareness This allows the system to operate as a single coordinated intelligence, not isolated robots. • All systems are loosely coupled, prompting eachother. • Clear safety guard rails and human on the loop. • Entire video is hands-off from human control after the initial paragraph of intent into the Orchestrator. • Agents run between 350ms to 10s cycle times depending on their function and all actions are real-time dynamic. No pre-scripting of the mission. ⚡ Video is sped up 2× for brevity This capability was developed under DARPA and U.S. Army contracts for broad DoW use. 🎙️ @emilmichael @Jason @friedberg @chamath this is the fully autonomous AI mission you discussed as possible someday soon on the @theallinpod last week. Happy to give any of you a direct technical brief at any time.
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Today I am extremely proud to introduce the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator 🇺🇸 For the past 12 months, the Scout AI team has been building this quietly. Now we’re finally ready to unveil it to the world Just like AI agents are transforming the digital world, Fury Orchestrator brings that same agentic intelligence into the physical world for the U.S. warfighter It is the first agentic system that can take a commander’s high-level mission intent, spoken or typed in natural language, and turn it into coordinated autonomous action across a mixed fleet of unmanned assets More in 🧵
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Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential. wired.com/story/ai-lab-scout…
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Scout AI today publicly showcased for the first time its Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator running a heterogeneous fleet of autonomous air and ground systems from natural language mission intent Watch the full demo now ⬇️
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From robotic swarms to low-cost drone forces, the future battlefield is changing fast. See what else Bill Vass, Randy Yamada, Brian MacCarthy, and @ScoutAI_’s @collinotis are predicting for the next decade of #DefenseTech. Check out their full conversation: boozallen.co/4pLoEUg
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Scout AI was selected as a winner of the @USArmy's xTechOverwatch Competition.
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In Q1, we’ll be unveiling what we internally call Project Moonshot: a fully autonomous, multi-domain, multi-asset mission powered end-to-end by Fury AI agents. This will be the first agentic mission of its kind in the defense industry 🦾🇺🇸
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This approach encapsulates exactly what we’re building. As far as I know, we’re the only company in defense-tech developing robots with frontier AI in mind
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New trucks at HQ 😎
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Scout team out having some fun last night!
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Scout and Hendrick Motorsports Technical Solutions today announced a partnership on NOMAD, HMS’s next-generation UGV controlled by Scout’s Fury autonomy system NOMAD represents Fury’s second UGV form factor and debuts Scout’s fastest foundation model to date, lightweight, low-latency, and purpose-built for compact robotic platforms
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Fury has started learning to fly missiles.
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Fury practicing autonomous waypoint navigation at our test site With Scout, operators can send waypoints to Fury (G01) from anywhere in the world. Scout mission operators have successfully commanded Fury from ~1,000 mi away in restricted terrain Autonomous off-road waypoint navigation isn’t new. What is new is doing it without LiDAR or labeled data -- on edge compute, in complex terrain, under real tactical constraints I started Scout in San Francisco because that’s where the best AI and AV engineers are. If you’re smart, mission-driven, and want to work on problems that actually matter, we’re hiring 👉 scoutco.ai/company#careers
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We are excited to announce that Scout has officially launched from stealth and is building the AI foundation model for defense robotics Today, we’re announcing: > A $15M oversubscribed seed round led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures > The unveiling of Fury — the first Vision-Language-Action foundation model built for defense robotics > We've landed two Department of Defense contracts Physical AI is the most decisive military advantage of this century. The mission is clear: enable the largest AI-powered robotic force the world has ever seen — and make sure it fights for freedom
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I have some exciting news, I co-founded a defense AI company last August to bring physical intelligence into the DoD. E2E learned systems, specifically vision-language-action models ("VLAs", vision-based LLM's that can output robot actions) are having their ChatGPT moment in robotics. As a matter of national security, it is imperative that we safely and securely develop this technology to stay ahead of our adversaries and preserve peace and prosperity for all. Coming out of stealth, stay tuned.
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Robot parking lot perfection achieved internally. Proceed to next level. ✅🤖 1x E2E neural net 1x RGB camera (video) 1x low power GPU 1x natural language prompt No headlights, no map, no lidar, no waypoints, no labeled data. VLA is fine-tuned only from human observation. VLA: vision-language-action model, an LLM with vision, trained to actuate a robot - embodied AI. Much simpler, more lightweight, and more capable than old-school autonomy. These systems are the future. Spot the team cheering.😃
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Introducing Helix, our newest AI that thinks like a human To bring robots into homes, we need a step change in capabilities Helix can generalize to any household item 🧵
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Replying to @BenJones @Airbnb
Incredible!
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The Endstate x @mfaboston capsule is officially live. shop.endstate.io/collections…
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