Pentagon pressure to move AI faster drives Smack’s new funding round, CEO says
Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military, is raising funding to speed production of its flagship product and make wearable AI hardware designed for the battlefield. The $61 million Series B funding round comes months after the Defense Department declared Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” in March, a rupture that sent military branches scrambling to diversify their AI vendors and turned startups like Smack from afterthoughts into hot commodities.
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Pentagon pressure to move AI faster drives Smack’s new funding round, CEO says Why it matters: Latency changes affect UX and cost envelopes. Revalidate timeout budgets and route-level fallbacks. Source: Telecomliveweb https://a2zai.ai/bytes/pentagon-pressure-to-move-ai-faste...
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