OpenAI Partners With Anduril to Build AI for Anti-Drone Systems

OpenAI is partnering with Anduril Industries Inc. to incorporate its artificial intelligence technology into the weapons maker’s anti-drone systems, marking the AI developer’s most significant push yet into the defense sector.

Anduril will lean on OpenAI’s technology to better detect and respond to unmanned “aerial threats,” largely drones, which have become a central part of modern warfare, the two companies said Wednesday. OpenAI will also use Anduril data to train its software for these defense systems.

In recent months, OpenAI has been seeking to expand its partnerships with the US government around national security, saying that it wants to support ...