Anduril Industries → OpenAI
announces national-security AI collaboration
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Combines OpenAI models and Anduril Lattice/CUAS data for counter-drone applications and operator decision support.
Defense systems supplier and AI integration partner
Anduril Industries
Defense systems company; recipient documents a16z/Founders Fund co-investment and OpenAI partnership.
Documented role and limits
Anduril's 17 June 2021 Series D release identifies a16z and Founders Fund as participants. Its 4 December 2024 OpenAI partnership describes models, Lattice and counter-drone data working together. The sources do not disclose investor-specific rights or demonstrate every promised deployment.
What the records show
U.S. Army → Anduril Industries
$65m TITAN production order
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Anduril receives the other production award; together the orders cover eight systems over eighteen months.
a16z Capital Management → Anduril Industries
Historical firm investment
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Marc Andreessen announced an Andreessen Horowitz investment in Anduril in October 2019.
Palantir Technologies Inc. → Anduril Industries
Lattice/Menace/AIP partnership
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December 2024 release announces data retention, AI training and deployment integration.
a16z Capital Management → Anduril Industries
participates in Series D
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Anduril identifies a16z among investors in $450m Series D led by Elad Gil.
Trae Stephens → Anduril Industries
Co-founder and executive chairman
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The maintained biography identifies Stephens's Anduril role.
Founders Fund → Anduril Industries
participates in Series D
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Anduril names Founders Fund in same Series D as a16z.
Further reading
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Andreessen: capital and policy
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7 relationshipsa16z Capital Management → participates in Series D → Anduril Industries
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Anduril identifies a16z among investors in $450m Series D led by Elad Gil. Round amount not a16z check; no investor-specific rights disclosed. Historic financing, newly checked.
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Founders Fund → participates in Series D → Anduril Industries
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Anduril names Founders Fund in same Series D as a16z. Co-investment is not common operational command or Peter Thiel personal giving. Historic financing, newly checked.
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Anduril Industries → announces national-security AI collaboration → OpenAI
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Combines OpenAI models and Anduril Lattice/CUAS data for counter-drone applications and operator decision support. Public description, not complete contract or proof of all deployments; no tracing of a16z funds into specific work.
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U.S. Army → $65m TITAN production order → Anduril Industries
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Anduril receives the other production award; together the orders cover eight systems over eighteen months. Separate from Palantir's $127m award; not proof of disbursement.
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Palantir Technologies Inc. → Lattice/Menace/AIP partnership → Anduril Industries
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December 2024 release announces data retention, AI training and deployment integration. An announced partnership plan does not prove deployment of every described component.
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a16z Capital Management → Historical firm investment → Anduril Industries
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Marc Andreessen announced an Andreessen Horowitz investment in Anduril in October 2019. Group-level crosswalk only: existing a16z node is labeled a16z Capital Management. Exact investing entity, present stake and control rights are undisclosed.
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Trae Stephens → Co-founder and executive chairman → Anduril Industries
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The maintained biography identifies Stephens's Anduril role. Does not establish Karp's or Thiel's command over Anduril.