Former Google CEO's New Startup Will Build AI Attack Drones

Published on January 25, 2024



Eric Schmidt has long been bullish on military drones, and now he's putting his Google money to work building them.

Google brought Eric Schmidt on as CEO in 2001 to be the "grown-up" in the room as founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page guided the company's products to their current dominant market position. Schmidt walked away from the CEO job several years later and many billions of dollars richer. A new report states he's using his Google money to fund a startup to build AI-powered attack drones. What could go wrong?

The existence of Schmidt's new military drone project was revealed earlier this month, but more details have surfaced since the initial report. We now know the startup, which was obscured by a series of LLCs, used to be known as Swift Beat Holdings, which was itself a subsidiary of Volya Robotics OÜ—Schmidt is the sole owner of this firm. Swift Beat has since been renamed White Stork, a reference to the national bird of Ukraine, where Schmidt has met with military leaders several times since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in early 2022.

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