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Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of autonomous vehicles.

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Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp

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