What Happened At America’s Own Military-Civil Fusion Fair
The hot topic at a major D.C. conference this week was how the government and companies can cooperate in areas like AI to counter China’s threat.
Founder and Chairman of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), Eric Schmidt, at a panel on 'The Future of Geopolitics and the Role of Innovation and Technology', Washington D.C., during SCSP's AI Expo for National Competitiveness, May 7, 2024. Credit: SCSP
At the center of a cavernous exhibition hall, under a large sign with the tagline “To Empower Warfighters,” a former submarine officer in a patterned button-up shirt was showing off a screen displaying an alarming scenario in the waters around Taiwan’s Kinmen island.
A Palantir employee demonstrates the Gaia mapping platform (shown below) during the AI Expo, May 2024. Credit: Katrina Northrop, Palantir
In this demonstration for Gaia, a mapping platform developed by the U.S. big data
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