EdgeRunner AI, the leader in military-specific, on-device artificial intelligence, and AI2C, the U.S. Army’s Artificial Intelligence Integration Center, today announced EdgeRunner-Camo, a new open-weight Large Language Model (LLM) from EdgeRunner AI developed with AI2C specifically for the U.S. Army.
Fine-tuned on Army-specific data, including from AI2C’s CamoGPT, the new EdgeRunner-Camo model is specifically tailored for Army users and designed for running locally in air-gapped environments without reliance upon third-party cloud-hosted proprietary models.
“We are excited to partner with AI2C to develop Army-specific LLMs for the warfighter,” said Tyler Saltsman, Co-Founder & CEO at EdgeRunner AI. “The Department of War and our national security partners require open-weight models fine-tuned on mission-specific data deployable in air-gapped environments away from the cloud. EdgeRunner is uniquely positioned to be the DoW’s key partner for building mission-specific models.”
This collaboration demonstrates how EdgeRunner AI partners with the Department of War (DoW) to train open-weight, mission-specific LLMs for national security use cases that can outperform frontier-level models while deploying locally for increased data security, privacy, and control. Furthermore, running models locally mitigates the need to worry about token usage and third-party API costs, delivering unlimited and unmetered intelligence to the warfighter at the tactical edge.
The EdgeRunner-Camo model was developed through EdgeRunner AI’s proprietary model development pipeline, utilizing Impact Level 5 (IL5) training environments when handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) data. The model excels at general military tasks and Army-specific use cases, reducing error rates by up 37% on 6 new Army-specific benchmarks created as part of this partnership. Detailed results and methodology are available in a separate report from EdgeRunner AI and AI2C.
These models form the basis of an ongoing collaboration with AI2C to develop best-in-class LLMs for the Army and will be deployed into the EdgeRunner AI platform and other systems accessible to national security partners.
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