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Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp
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Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp

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  • " The company said on Wednesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, following its $15 million seed round in January 2025
  • The company is building an AI model it calls "Fury" to operate and command military assets, first for logistical support and then, soon, for autonomous weapons
  • Scout has secured military technology development contracts totaling $11 million from organizations like DARPA, the Army Applications Laboratory, and other Department of Defense customers
  • Army's 1st Cavalry Division during its regular training cycle at Fort Hood in Texas, with the expectation that the unit will bring along products that prove themselves when it next deploys in 2027
  • Scout is turning to a newer autonomy technology: Vision Language Action models, or VLAs, that are based on LLMs and used to control robots

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that can help individual soldiers control fleets of autonomous vehicles.

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