The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.
They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters. Yet for part of the year, a set of brainy Silicon Valley executives will trade their corporate-branded vests for U.S. Army Reserve uniforms because they know a heckuva lot about artificial intelligence.
The chief technology officers from Palantir and Meta Platforms—Shyam Sankar and Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, respectively—will join Kevin Weil and Bob McGrew of OpenAI pedigree to make up the inaugural cohort of a new Army innovation corps.
Their mission: swap C-suites for bases and bring some badly needed tech upgrades to the Army.
The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More https://t.co/zmZFh5tInf
— Trip (@TripKrant) June 13, 2025