Most companies are not in the business they say thay are in. As an example Niantic just announced they have been building the largest Geospatial Model.
Large Geospatial Models will help computers perceive, comprehend, and navigate the physical world in a way that will seem equally advanced. Analogous to LLMs
This no doubt has military applications. Starlink was famously being used by both the Ukrainian Military and the Russian military. Google DeepMind had military contracts and as of 2021 were trying to get back into business with the Pentagon. Meta is on contract with the the feds for use of their Llama model for National Security. Space X has new contracts worth $733.5 million for national security space missions and won a $1.8 billion classified contract with the U.S. government in 2021, according to company documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Google, Facebook, even Twitter have facial recognition models built off user data that can and likely are used in military applications.
Most companies are not in the business they say thay are in. As an example Niantic just announced they have been building the largest Geospatial Model.
This no doubt has military applications. Starlink was famously being used by both the Ukrainian Military and the Russian military. Google DeepMind had military contracts and as of 2021 were trying to get back into business with the Pentagon. Meta is on contract with the the feds for use of their Llama model for National Security. Space X has new contracts worth $733.5 million for national security space missions and won a $1.8 billion classified contract with the U.S. government in 2021, according to company documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Google, Facebook, even Twitter have facial recognition models built off user data that can and likely are used in military applications.
The MIC is a powerful drug. Don't count it out.