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MIT and US Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator
« on: May 21, 2019, 11:47:29 am »
MIT and US Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator
Danny Crichton  20 hours ago
 

The Pentagon is one of the largest technology customers in the world, purchasing everything from F-35 planes (roughly $90 million each) to cloud services (the JEDI contract was $10 billion). Despite outlaying hundreds of billions of dollars for acquisitions though, the Defense Department has struggled to push nascent technologies from startups through its punishing procurement process.

The department launched the Defense Innovation Unit a few years back as a way to connect startups into the defense world. Now, the military has decided to work even earlier to ensure that the next generation of startups can equip the military with the latest technology.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/mit-and-u-s-air-force-team-up-to-launch-ai-accelerator/