113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation

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The episode discusses how In-Q-Tel is facilitating innovation within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community through investment in groundbreaking technologies.

[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory understand the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have on the character of warfare — for a comprehensive list of previously published blog posts and podcasts exploring the potential application of these technologies across the Operational Environment, scroll to the bottom of this post and explore the content associated with each of the associated links. Today’s The Convergence podcast features two senior leaders from In-Q-Tel (IQT) discussing how their not-for-profit company is accelerating the introduction of groundbreaking technologies to facilitate innovation within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC), enhancing the national security and prosperity of the United States and its Allies — Enjoy!] Murali Kannan leads Enterprise Technologies at In-Q-Tel (IQT) as Vice President and Practice Lead, where he directs investment strategy for enterprise data infrastructure, generative AI applications, and AI-enabled vertical solutions. Working closely with venture partners and government stakeholders, he identifies and invests in innovative…

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Guest: Murali Kannan

Topics covered

• government investment
• innovation
• national security
• artificial intelligence
• venture capital

Keywords

• Large Language Models
• AI
• In-Q-Tel
• national security
• innovation
• Department of Defense
• Intelligence Community

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Organizations: In-Q-Tel, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community

Places: United States, Allies

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