The founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, He became a billionaire connecting people with their friends to share photos and memories. Now he wants to connect US troops on the battlefield to help them defeat their enemies.

The company announced on Thursday that it will work with the newly formed Anduril Defense Technology Company to offer the US Army and its allies for soldiers involved Augmented reality software and Artificial intelligence.

Meta and Anduril aim to “transform the way soldiers see, feel and incorporate information from the battlefield,” Anduril said. Companies are already working on a high -tech helmet as part of a project called Eagleeyesaid the founder of Anduril, Palmer Lucky, In the technological podcast “Core Memory”.

Meta’s new business initiative also reunites Zuckerberg with Laki, the founder of the Oculus Virtual Reality Company. In 2017, he left a high profile position on the company that was then called Facebook, after a public outcry that donated $ 10,000 to an organization against Hillary Clinton.

Lucky laid the foundations of Meta’s work in virtual reality after Oculus’s acquisition of the company for $ 2 billion in 2014. After leaving the company, he co -founded Anduril, one of the most prominent companies between a wave Intelligence becomes evident in the fields of Ukraine battles.

“I’m glad I’m working with Meta again,” Lucky said. ‘My mission has been for a long time to convert warriors into techniciansand the products we make with Meta do just that. “

For his part, Zuckerberg pointed out that Meta is “proud to work with Anduril to help provide these technologies to US military who protect our interests inside and abroad”.

It is noted that Meta and its founder are trying to reinforce their relationship with President Donald Trump with flattering public comments, private meetings and a donation of $ 1 million from META to the President’s swearing -in committee.

Meta has also made Republican -friendly policy changes, such as the abolition of the event control program, the revision of the content management strategy to make it more tolerant and the end of initiatives for diversity, equality and integration (dei).

Among the first projects planned to take over the two companies is the Eagleeye helmet for soldiers. Lucky described it as a combination of an artificial intelligence with communications and other functions.

Will be one ‘Ubiquitous companion that can handle systems that can communicate with others, to which you can assign tasks … that will watch you with more eyes than you could ever watch out for yourself, just there, right there in your helmet. “Lucky said.

Anduril and Meta said they filed a joint request for an Army contract for augmented reality devices that provide US soldiers “increased murder, mobility and status”, according to a registration of the Ministry of Defense for the project.

The Eagleeye system will improve the hearing and sight of the soldiers by helping them detect drones flying miles away or hidden targets, the Wall Street Journal said.

The project will be based on Anduril’s “Autonomy Software” and META’s artificial intelligence models.

To contribute to collaboration, META will use its large investment in artificial intelligence models known as Llama and in the Virtual Reality Department, reality Labs. The company has made several versions of augmented reality devices aimed at mixing the natural and virtual world – a concept known as Metaverse.

Meta’s new venture shows Silicon Valley’s attitude change. New technology companies that once hesitated to work with the army now feel comfortable in their transactions with the Pentagon.

In November, Meta announced that it will allow US government services and contractors working in national security applications to use its artificial intelligence models. In 2018, Google declined to renew an artificial intelligence technology agreement at the Pentagon after its reaction of employees, but now she is proud of military contracts and recently withdrew her commitment to not applying artificial intelligence to surveillance or surveillance.