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Frontier AI lab for U.S. defense

Silicon Valley
Joined December 2024
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Gx VLA operating with a nice view
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One operator commanding seven AI agents to perform an end to end mission. Its very clear to me that using agents for autonomous vehicle orchestration is the solution to swarming across domains and systems
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We're now able to command over 15 heterogenous UAS through our air-gapped Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator, with on-board Fury agents working together to execute ISR to Find, Fix, Finish missions. Here's part of the fleet getting packed out for a major demonstration next week. Proud of the team and the incredible pace of innovation.
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Scout field office. We run C2, air, and ground based missions here all day every day.
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Scout AI retweeted
We are proud to double down on our seed investment in Scout by leading their $100M series A. Colby and Collin are world-class entrepreneurs and technologists. Between seed and Series A, Scout’s vision language and action (VLA) model was deployed in the field by their government and commercial customers. Freedom is not free. Edge intelligence is the future, and its applications range from industrial security, deterrent for global conflicts, and cyber security. With Scout, the world is a safer and better place for everyone.
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Scout AI just raised a $100M Series A that we co-led at @DraperVC. They’re building an AI model called Fury that operates military vehicles and drones with real intelligence. They’ve already secured $11M in DoD contracts and are one of 20 autonomy companies embedded with the Army's 1st Cavalry Division. Scout AI's CTO @collinotis made a point that stuck with me. These autonomous systems can be constrained to a specific geographic zone, or locked to require human confirmation before any action. The AI doesn’t act unilaterally. That matters to us. The question of who controls autonomous defense systems, and how, is one of the most important design questions of this decade. Scout is thinking about it seriously. Congrats to @adcock_colby, Collin, and the whole @ScoutAI_ team on the raise.
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Big announcement coming out soon. Be on the lookout! 📈
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Scout AI retweeted
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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Scout AI retweeted
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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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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Next week, we’re unveiling something we believe fundamentally changes multi-agent capability for modern defense operations
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Adaptability is one of many reasons VLA's will dominate offroad defense autonomy. Sharing a cool video from 2 months ago. We previously taught Fury to "follow a human" and with a small amount of human demonstration and changing the command to "follow the vehicle" it is able to Convoy
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Fury command: "hit the truck" ➡️ Autonomy engaged
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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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New trucks at HQ 😎
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Sim to real example 🦾 Command to Fury: "hit the blue cylinder" This Fury model was trained entirely in simulation, ZERO real-world data. Our RL stack is making huge strides, and we’ll be sharing more soon.
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Meet NOMAD, built by @TeamHendrick and automated by Fury
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We’re proud to advance the future of #DefenseTech through #BoozAllen Ventures and its portfolio companies, like @ScoutAI_ , who are driving innovation to the frontlines. In this sneak peek, Colby Adcock, Scout AI Co-Founder and CEO, and Randy Yamada, Ph.D., Booz Allen VP of Autonomy, introduce you to NOMAD—@TeamHendrick next-gen UGV, controlled by Scout AI’s Fury autonomy system. See how NOMAD can autonomously follow warfighters, easing their physical and mental load without the need for extra controllers. Through our investment and expertise, we’re helping to get this transformative tech deployed to the battlefield faster. boozallen.co/4pbfXD9
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