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We saw a demo of the new AI system powering Anduril’s vision for war • We’re living through the first drone wars, but AI is poised to change the future of warfare even more drastically.

We’re living through the first drone wars, but AI is poised to change the future of warfare even more drastically.

One afternoon in late November, I visited a weapons test site in the foothills east of San Clemente, California, operated by Anduril, a maker of AI-powered drones and missiles that recently announced a partnership with OpenAI. Near the site’s command center, which looked out over desert scrubs and sage, sat pieces of Anduril’s hardware suite that have helped the company earn its $14 billion valuation. The push to build more AI-connected hardware systems in the military could spark one of the largest data collection projects the Pentagon has ever undertaken, and companies like Anduril and Palantir have big plans.

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