In this episode of the Mission Matters podcast, Akhil and Maggie speak with Brian Raymond, the CEO of Unstructured, a startup building the future of data tooling for generative AI, transforming unstructured data into structured data that can be used by AI models.
Episode overview:
Brian Raymond’s journey from the CIA and National Security Council to building Unstructured, an AI infrastructure startup.
The “unsexy” data and infrastructure challenge behind LLMs and agents — from PDFs and XML to chunked JSON.
How SOCOM, the Air Force, and the Army are leading the way in practical GenAI deployment
What commercial enterprises like Nestlé are doing with agents today — and what the DoD can learn from them
A tactical roadmap for AI adoption in national security — from policy fixes to compute access to trust-building
And much more
Keywords: AI, National Security, DoD, Infrastructure, Generative AI, Adoption, Challenges, Use Cases, Trust, Technology, Department of Defense, AI technology, open source, trust building, government initiatives, experimentation, deployment challenges, dual-use technology, AI infrastructure, future of AI
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