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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
That is crazy.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Powered by Hivemind.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Hivemind being our AI pilot.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Again, just been working on Hivemind for the past 10 years.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
The mission sets, like we were talking about in the studio, being like that library of checked out missions, but
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Continue to work on classified level missions for air-to-air missions, air-to-ground missions for this aircraft.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Um, we're cruising, uh, cruising at Mach 0.85.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Um, we're expecting that you'll be able to dash supersonic.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
The problem when you dash supersonic is that your, your signature goes up, uh, people now and, um, right.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
This thing is meant to be, uh, pretty, pretty low observable in terms of, uh, what the enemy's looking for.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
So, yeah.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
So when it lands, it lands just like this?
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
It lands just like this.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Takes off, lands.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Don't want to say, like, yeah, we took inspiration from, you know, SpaceX, you know, catching the thing.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Yeah, and we've got a lot of experience doing that with the VBAT.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
And actually, believe it or not, VBAT's a harder thing to launch and land than something like this, because...
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Like an armorer will tell you, it's like, look, Falcon 9, you have all the thrust in the world.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
And like you put that thing wherever you want on the planet, centimeters.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Like VBAT, and like you have perfect weather conditions.