Eric Schmidt’s Secret ‘White Stork’ Project Aims To Build AI Combat Drones

Published on January 23, 2024



The former Google CEO has been quietly working on a military startup called White Stork with plans to design “kamikaze” attack drones.

Billionaire technologist Eric Schmidt has been quietly building a new drone startup in the U.S. and Ukraine within a nesting doll of LLCs that have helped to conceal its operations and team members. Forbes first reported the project’s existence this month and has since learned that it is called White Stork, a reference to the national bird and sacred totem of Ukraine, where Schmidt has assumed the role of defense tech advisor and financier. White Stork was formally established last August, according to business incorporation records and two sources with knowledge of the startup. The company has been developing a mass-producible drone that uses artificial intelligence for visual targeting and can function in zero-comms environments created by GPS jamming.

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