AI in Aerospace & Defense: 10 real deployments

Grok Bot will route tasks to different AI providers based on task type: Claude Opus 5.5 for heavy reasoning and coding, Midjourney for image generation, and Suno for audio and music

Training Grok AI on the sum total of SpaceX's internal information and employee contributions

Using Devin coding agent for software development tasks

Acquired Cursor to build AI coding capabilities inside SpaceXAI

On-orbit image analysis using Gemma open-weight models

Loft Orbital ran Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 vision-language model on an Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX aboard its YAM-9 satellite, processing natural-language queries against live Earth imagery entirely onboard, the first reported VLM deployment in space.

Defense contractor Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence) is deploying Niantic Spatial's Visual Positioning System, built from approximately 30 billion Pokemon Go player scans, to enable GPS-denied military drone navigation.

China's lights-out 'dark factory' uses AI-driven process control and robotics to sustain continuous production of J-20 stealth fighter jets without floor workers.

Reported: Reportedly more than doubled production efficiency for J-20 stealth jets

Deploying in-house transformer model Solo for autonomous control of Autonomy-1 asteroid-mining probe, first in shadow mode aboard DeepSpace-2 launching late 2026, then sole command of Autonomy-1 in 2027

barred Fable from proprietary cybersecurity code work for clients following Anthropic's June policy change granting 30-day retention of usage logs