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Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI, informed FOX Business about the data utilized to train the open-source AI model, aimed at effectively guiding military personnel in field operations and real-world combat scenarios.
Last month, the announcement that four artificial intelligence companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI, had secured a government contract with the Pentagon drew the attention of one CEO who expressed skepticism about the proprietary models developed by these tech giants.
The companies, known for their chatbot services powered by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Elon Musk’s Grok respectively, each received $200 million in government contracts.
These funds can be used by the Department of Defense to support warfighting and national security challenges across federal, state and local levels.
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Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI, told FOX Business the goal of the on-device military agent is to act similarly to Iron Man’s J.A.R.V.I.S. (Colton Malkerson, Tyler Saltsman / Fox News)
“Right now, when you use ChatGPT or Grok or Anthropic Claude, you’re connected to the internet and every time you prompt it or ask it a question, you’re giving them your data,” Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI, told FOX Business.
Saltsman, a former Army officer with eight years of service in the Reserves, contributed to Operation Atlantic Resolve in 2017 as a logistician. Throughout his career, the CEO has worked in technology, having previously served at Amazon Web Services and Stability AI, a company known for advancements in text-to-image models.
EdgeRunner AI is a technological agent operated offline and isolated from unsecured networks in order to safeguard sensitive data and reinforce security.
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CEO of EdgeRunner AI and a former Army officer informed FOX Business that the military cannot employ generic AI models that are anti-Israel and supportive of Hamas or Iran, as these models are trained on left-leaning information.
“What we’ve done at EdgeRunner is we’ve taken these models, these LLMs, we’ve compressed them, and we fine-tune them on military data,” Saltsman said. “So now, they’re so small that they can live on a chip, and they don’t require big data center servers to host them.”
Saltsman champions EdgeRunner AI as open source and told FOX Business “you can see the guts of the models” if requested, whereas code bases and architecture for other chatbots are unattainable, according to the CEO. He added that EdgeRunner AI models can rest right on military armour or equipment, including battery packs, laptops or phones.
Chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok are trained on data from sources including websites like Wikipedia, news articles, books and consumer interaction.
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