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Brandon Tseng
President & co-founder, Shield AI
Co-founded Shield AI, maker of autonomous V-BAT drones and AI pilots flying F-16s; former Navy SEAL.
Shield AIReal Alpha has cut 5 moments of Brandon Tseng (President & co-founder, Shield AI) talking, from an interview on The Shawn Ryan Show published Oct 23, 2025.
What Brandon Tseng said
The Shawn Ryan Show · Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun | SRS #247
5 moments · 20 min
- 1:51:22
X-BAT aims to deliver fighter capability without runways
“We're targeting $27.5 million per pop on it with a $6,000 per hour operating cost for the aircraft.”
at 1:57:54 - 1:15:48
Autonomous systems learn through simulation and reward
“you basically give it a goal and then behaviors that you believe are positive, you reinforce those behaviors, you reward those behaviors.”
at 1:19:36 - 1:40:38
Shield AI can integrate an AI pilot with three engineers in three months
“we can now do, with a couple hundred thousand dollars, three engineers in three months”
at 1:42:58 - 1:13:20
Shield AI moved beyond a small quadcopter market
“there's not real money flowing towards these quadcopter products.”
at 1:14:35 - 6:15
V-BAT supported a major Caribbean drug interdiction
“And two weeks in, I've interdicted over half a billion dollars worth of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea.”
at 6:45
- 1:51:22
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