Palmer Luckey

They have historically gotten much worse gear than they should have.

But as a practical person who wants to have impact, I know that's not where I'm going to have it.

I know that I'm not going to have a huge many billion dollar impact on that industry, given that the people in charge of running that side of things are not going to agree that it's worth investing in.

It's been a double edged sword.

I think we've been working on AI for defense since literally day one.

That was the whole pitch.

The second page of our pitch deck was a quote from Vladimir Putin.

He was talking about artificial intelligence.

And he said, the country that wins in this sphere will become the ruler of the entire world, which I love.

It's a very James Bond villain-esque quote.

On the one hand, it sounded crazier at the time because AI wasn't hot seven years ago.

There are people who are interested in it, but it's obviously not even a hundredth of the attention that's being dedicated to it today.

The flip side of that is now that everyone is saying they're AI, all of a sudden our message is getting diluted.

We've actually been doing AI for defense for almost seven years now.

And now everyone is changing to say, yes, our systems are all powered by AI.

It's all AI driven.

Some of that's true.

Some of it's not.

Now,

It actually is less differentiated than we were.