The Pentagon’s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away

The Pentagon's reliance on publicly released frontier AI models from companies like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI poses a security risk as adversaries can harvest their logic without breaching defense systems. The Department of Defense's shift to an 'AI-first' warfighting strategy ties military dominance to AI model supremacy, with systems like Project Maven and Anduril’s Lattice dependent on these models.