WindBorne Lands Nearly $50M US Air Force Contract for Its AI Weather Balloon Data
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-10-13
Silicon Valley startup WindBorne, which uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather, has won a US military contract from the Air Force worth nearly $50 million, centered on the data its balloon fleet collects.
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