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Palmer Luckey’s Defense Startup, Anduril, Raises $1.5 Billion to Produce AI-Powered Weapons
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s defense startup just got a huge investment to build a new generation of weapons—powered by artificial intelligence.
Today, the Oculus VR founder’s defense tech startup, Anduril, announced that it has raised $1.5 billion in addition to developing a new manufacturing platform to produce “tens of thousands of autonomous weapons” a year. Anduril’s move also appears inspired by a Pentagon initiative called Replicator, launched last August, which is funneling money into companies capable of producing thousands of “attritable,” or expendable, autonomous systems per year. A study on the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program coauthored by CSIS’s Allen notes that the project signals a new approach from the Department of Defense, inspired by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as reports suggesting that the Chinese military is preparing to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027.
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