It’s not the duo you might have imagined.
You’d never guess from the chummy photo that, just eight years ago, Zuckerberg’s company (back when it was still called Facebook) very publicly fired Luckey after a donation he made to a pro-Trump group caused an uproar among staff.
But times have changed. And the two tech entrepreneurs are apparently now ready to make up for the sake of making money—and to make America’s military stronger. In so doing, Palmer and Zuck are forging the equally improbable alliance of a startup that builds killer drones and a social network founded with the mission to “bring the world closer together.”
The initial collaboration centers on what the companies are calling “EagleEye,” where Meta and Anduril will build devices like helmets and headsets for U.S. soldiers that will have enhanced heat and thermal sensor capabilities to help detect enemies on the battlefield, as well as built-in compute and communications features to control drones. The companies have already submitted a whitepaper to one of the Army’s programs in hopes of being selected for the project.
