Sweden's Saab unveiled a family of AI agents it developed in-house for future air platforms, after testing them on the Gripen E fighter. According to the company, the agents use several AI techniques for tactical decision-making and can work alongside a pilot in the cockpit or operate an uncrewed aircraft of their own.
At the core of the project is Saab's AI Fighter Pilot Academy, an infrastructure to create, train and evaluate the agents. "The harder question is how we turn this success into a dependable capability that can learn, improve, and be relevant over time," said Peter Nilsson, head of Advanced Programs at the company's aeronautics unit. So far the agents have mainly been tested in beyond-visual-range combat scenarios.
To scale its computing capacity, Saab has become a founding partner in Sferical AI, a Swedish government-backed initiative built on NVIDIA's DGX SuperPOD architecture. Nilsson said this keeps the data under Swedish control rather than in Google's or Amazon's cloud. The company plans to use the technology in the uncrewed aircraft it is developing.