Our Co-founder and & COO Colton Malkerson participated in a roundtable discussion this week with Congressman Ted Lieu (@tedlieu), Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, and Congressman James Walkinshaw (@JamesWalkinshaw). Alongside leaders from @ElevenLabs, @hippocraticai, and @a16z, Colton discussed the importance of Open-Weight models and how Congress can support American AI leadership. Thank you to the American Innovators Network (@Innovators) for organizing this important discussion.

Great to be on Capitol Hill this week meeting with lawmakers to discuss the importance of Open Weight models for American AI Leadership. We also celebrated the launch of the bipartisan House Innovators Caucus to support the Little Tech agenda. Thank you @Innovators and @a16z for organizing.

We're heading to the @AFA_Air_Space Association Conference! We'll be showcasing how our AFSC-specific AI agents support military operations in contested environments. Dates: September 14-16 Location: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Booth: MB313 Learn more and register here: afa.org/air-space-cyber-conf…

Our CEO Tyler Saltsman joined @MorningsMaria on @FoxBusiness to discuss EdgeRunner-Camo, our new domain-specific LLM for the warfighter developed in collaboration with the US Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C). Watch here: vimeo.com/1219433753

We're excited to announce EdgeRunner-Camo, a new domain-specific LLM for the warfighter from EdgeRunner AI developed in collaboration with @USArmyAI (AI2C). EdgeRunner-Camo achieves a 37% reduction in error rates across personnel, logistics, training, policy, weapons, and tactics, demonstrating how domain-specific LLMs can improve operational effectiveness. Domain specialization, including for military functional areas, allows us to shrink model sizes by 10x and more while still achieving frontier-level accuracy on military tasks. Such efficiency is important not only for enabling edge deployment on each warfighter’s local hardware, but also for radically decreasing costs when hosting AI solutions in server-client architectures. The work presented in this blog post represents our initial efforts with this dataset and use case. EdgeRunner-Camo is well suited as a generalist virtual assistant for the Army that can be deployed in-garrison on a wide variety of inference architectures or in the field at the tactical edge using EdgeRunner’s optimized inference runners. Read the full details below ⬇️

"We think of robots as the next frontier of AI" - Tyler Saltsman Check out our latest coverage by @FoxNews of our ongoing collaboration with @USArmy DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory to build and deploy localized LLMs for drones and robotics. Read the article here: foxnews.com/politics/battlef…

We're #6 for Mission Software & AI on The All-World Defense 300. The All-World Defense 300 by @_futureunion_ is the first authoritative review of the global private companies the allied world now depends on for its defense — ranked on outcome-based capabilities and demonstrated success in solving the challenges of customer nation-states. See the full list here: futureunion.co/top-defense-c…

Today we are in the New Mexico desert alongside @DIU_x and @CENTCOM demonstrating how EdgeRunner enables real-time UAS/CUAS decision advantage and tactical intelligence for warfighters in DDIL environments. More to come - stay tuned.

By 2027, a destroyer XO should demand AI that operates fully offline without degradation, exposes transparent and traceable reasoning, integrates without destabilizing shipboard networks, reduces administrative and cognitive burden measurably, and fails gracefully, loudly enough that watch standers notice before the gap becomes a hazard. Check out this article from EdgeRunner’s John Babick in @CIMSEC: cimsec.org/what-a-destroyer-…

We are excited to welcome Benjamin Rento to EdgeRunner AI! Ben joins as Sr. Director of Business Development. He comes from JP Morgan Chase & Co. and was previously a Military Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Army. We are honored to have Ben on our team and look forward to him accelerating our mission to deliver AI dominance for the warfighter.

We're proud to officially sign this letter supporting open models. Open Weight AI is critical to American AI leadership and our national security.

EdgeRunner and @USArmy DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Collaborate to Bring High-Level Intelligence to the Edge for Heterogeneous Autonomous Military Platforms

Bringing LLMs to the edge for drones and robotics

We were honored to represent EdgeRunner AI yesterday at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit hosted by @SenMcCormickPA. Featuring @POTUS Donald J. Trump, @SecWar, @SecArmy, Jamie Dimon, @DinaPowellMcC, and other leaders across defense, industry, and academia, the summit focused on growing the defense industrial base and accelerating technology for the warfighter.

Frontier AI Is Pricing Itself Into a Corner. Local Models Are the Way Out. AI costs are not only increasing, but accelerating. If current trends hold, intelligence will only be accessible to the most well-funded companies and labs. This threatens not only our economic security, but our national security. Fortunately, concurrent trends are making practical AI both less expensive and more accessible. Whether it’s using smaller fine-tuned models, designing efficient agentic and tool-calling harnesses, or training more efficient models, organizations can leverage several techniques to lower their cost of intelligence. Read our full deep dive here: edgerunnerai.com/news/fronti…

Last week at the Agentic Futures Initiative Symposium in Washington, DC, our our Co-Founder & COO Colton Malkerson moderated a fireside chat with Rep. @ZachNunn on how Agentic AI is being applied across the national security landscape. Rep. Nunn has served nearly two decades in the United States Air Force, was Director of Cybersecurity at The White House National Security Council, and serves on the Select Committee on China. Conversations like these are important to ensure policymakers and industry work collaboratively to develop solutions that support our warfighters and keep Americans safe.