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Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Your Facebook trains military AI 🦙 🔪

  Scale AI and Meta unveiled Defense Llama.

• NVIDIA watches you 24/7 🎥 💬

  Turn videos into searchable, summarizable content.

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WTF is Defense Llama? 🦙 🔪

On Sunday, Scale AI and Meta unveiled Defense Llama. It’s a specialized version of Llama 3 built for U.S. military operations.

What is Defense Llama?

It’s an AI model trained on military doctrine and DoD guidelines to help with operations planning, threat assessment, and strategy.

What’s under the hood?

Scale used its Data Engine to fine-tune Llama 3 on military documents and international humanitarian law, ensuring outputs match DoD standards.

What’s the point?

Meta's CSO says it'll “keep our country competitive,” and Scale's CEO frames it as supporting national security. It marks a major shift in Big Tech's approach to military AI as U.S.-China competition heats up.

Who can use it?

Only U.S. government agencies can through Scale Donovan, Scale's “digital staff officer” platform.

What's next?

It'll be integrated into command and control systems, intelligence tools, and decision-support platforms.

I demand more military AI.

Ok, ok. Last month, we covered Anduril Industries’ ISR and Bolt-M drones. They’re compact, AI-powered drones designed for military surveillance and strike missions.

Back in May, we reported on Anduril Industries’ Pulsar. It’s a suite of AI-driven electromagnetic warfare systems (EWS).

Last year, we covered Boston Dynamics’ Spot. The four-legged robot can walk, run, jump, dance, parkour, and communicate as a military surveillance robot.

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NVIDIA knows what you did last summer 🎥 💬

On Sunday, NVIDIA released a new AI Blueprint. It turns videos into searchable, summarizable content using natural language.

What does it do?

It lets you ask questions about video content, generate summaries, and set alerts — all using regular language instead of code.

What's it good for?

Everything from summarizing surveillance footage to spotting safety violations in warehouses. Palermo's traffic managers are already using it to monitor the streets.

Any cool features?

It can build knowledge graphs showing relationships between events and objects in videos, enabling deeper analysis than just object detection.

Where can I run it?

On NVIDIA GPUs at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud through partners like Dell and Lenovo.

What else has NVIDIA been up to?

In August, we covered NVIDIA and Mistral’s AI model. Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B is small enough to run on your laptop, but smart enough to compete with the big boys.

The week before, we reported on StormCast. It’s NVIDIA’s generative AI model for weather prediction.

In May, we covered DrEureka. It’s NVIDIA, UPenn, and UT Austin’s method that trains robots without any real-world training or fine-tuning.

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YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Think Piece 🧠

Why Python is GitHub's most-used programming language. It’s driven by the surge in generative AI and its strong presence in machine learning and data science.

Startup News 💰

Decart AI added Custom Worlds to its Oasis AI game generator. It allows you to upload images that the AI transforms into playable 3D game environments.

Walt Disney launched the Office of Technology Enablement. The goal is to coordinate AI and mixed reality initiatives across its film, television, and theme park divisions.

Research 👨‍🔬

The inner workings of SDXL Turbo — researchers discovered different transformer blocks specialize in image composition, adding local details, and managing color and style.

Slow thinking in AI models — how detailed chain-of-thought (slow thinking) results in more stable and uniform gradient patterns across layers, and more.

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