Hugging Face, the New York City-startup that maintains the popular open source repository of machine learning and AI code of the same name and the open source ChatGPT-rival Hugging Chat, is launching …
DoD launches the OTA-Funded Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Investment Program: Seeks Industry Proposals
For the seasoned government contractor and acquisitions professional, the not very tightly held secret is the Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) is the only formal mechanism currently available for the …
Rise of the Robots: Breakthroughs in Humanoid Robotics and the Dawn of Embodied AI
Is your head still spinning from all the AI news of late? It will all seem so quaint when the useful humanoid robots arrive. This post tracks some of the recent breakthroughs in humanoids, with a …
Bioengineering, Health and Business
In our previous post in this series (see the OODA Special Report: Executive's Guide To the Revolution in Biology) we reviewed some fundamentals in biological science and engineering we recommend all …
Biotechnology in Warfare and Battle – and the Human Body as a Warfighting Domain
RAND researchers in a recently released report explore biology as the platform on which future wars will be fought. Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War "examines the …
Business Models, Generating Value and the Double Exponential Future of Artificial Intelligence in 2024
The future of AI was a broad theme at OODAcon 2023 which was discussed not only at a session dedicated to the topic, but in the context of the impact of AI on cybersecurity and autonomous systems. …
AI Breakthroughs and Promising Partnerships: What You Need to Know
In this post, we have separated the wheat from the chaff in the AI ecosystem, surfacing and highlighting some of the most prescient AI/ML breakthroughs and promising public/private …
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The Future of AI-based Gene Sequencing
An analysis of the latest Alphafold breakthrough - Enformer, a neural network architecture that accurately predicts gene expression from DNA sequences - and the What's Next? of the future of AI and …
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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material
ChatGPT developer OpenAI recently acknowledged the necessity of using copyrighted material in the development of AI tools like ChatGPT, The Telegraph reports, saying they would be "impossible" without …
Recent Developments in and the Future of the Bioeconomy in 2024
We have tracked vital recent developments in health security, bioengineering, synthetic biology, biotechnology, and medical technology - which are compiled here. The future of the U.S. Bioeconomy is …
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