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Hidden start-up: Former Google chairman Eric Schmidt is developing cheap drones with artificial intelligence for Ukraine.
Washington – With the ongoing war in Ukraine, drones remain relevant.
The kamikaze drone in particular proves to be effective.
A Google billionaire has now founded a start-up.
The goal: AI drones – for Ukraine and as an American alternative on the drone market.
But the project is opaque.
AI drones: AI kamikaze drones are designed to bypass GPS interference
The start-up is an open secret in the drone community and uses artificial intelligence for military purposes, reports
Forbes
.
Accordingly, the contributors have developed a mass-producible drone that uses artificial intelligence for visual target detection and can be used in environments without communication caused by GPS interference.
This will involve the development of cost-effective kamikaze drones.
Ukraine should benefit from this and be equipped with the most modern drone capabilities.
The new kamikaze drone is said to be equipped with AI instead of GPS.
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Drone project: EX-Google boss is building AI drones for Ukraine
The head of the project is said to be former Google chairman Eric Schmidt.
The technologist is a billionaire.
Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression, he has advocated that Ukraine should use more drones.
“Perhaps most important is the kamikaze drone,” he wrote in an editorial in the
Wall Street Journal
last July .
These cheap drones could lurk around the battlefield before being dispatched to disable or destroy their targets.
“In the hands of an experienced operator with several months of training, these drones fly so fast that it is almost impossible to shoot them down,” he added.
Opaque: Start-up is said to have changed its name several times
His company, White Stork, was officially founded in August 2023,
Forbes
reported , citing company formation documents and statements from several people who knew about it.
It was said that Schmidt visited factories and test sites in Ukraine and, in his capacity as a productive military technology investor, made contact with numerous other start-ups.
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The start-up's business activities were disguised under different company names, it was said.
These were limited liability companies, so-called LLC companies.
White Stork's business would be conducted through shell companies, giving the project opacity.
Internet addresses would point to empty pages.
AI Weapons: Drone Could Change Global Warfare
Word in drone circles is that in addition to helping Ukraine, the AI drones will serve as an American alternative to Chinese drones, according to
Interesting Engineering
.
Such drones would likely not only influence the course of the ongoing war in Ukraine, but also change the general conduct of warfare.
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