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Introducing Defense Llama

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https://scale.com/blog/defense-llama

reliability
0.40

authors: Scale AI

published: 2024-11

accessed: 2026-04-19

Notes

Company announcement blog post; self-interested primary source for the existence/features of its own product, slightly above the 0.35 blog prior because the core factual claims (product exists, built on Llama 3, available in Donovan) are directly verifiable by the vendor.

Intake provenance

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afls-ingest/0.0.1
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2026-04-19T20:52:03.119976Z
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Evidence from this source (4)

  • weight
    0.70

    method: primary_testimony · locator: Paragraph 3 (training data)

    “Defense Llama was trained on a vast dataset, including military doctrine, international humanitarian law, and relevant policies designed to align with the Department of Defense (DoD) guidelines for armed conflict as well as the DoD's Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence.”
  • weight
    0.90

    method: primary_testimony · locator: Example use case and final paragraph

    “a military planner may need to understand how an adversary would plan an attack against a U.S. military base... Defense Llama is now available for integration into various defense systems, including command and control platforms, intelligence analysis tools, and decision-support systems.”
  • weight
    0.90

    method: primary_testimony · locator: Opening paragraph

    “Defense Llama, the Large Language Model (LLM) built on Meta's Llama 3 that is specifically customized and fine-tuned to support American national security missions... available exclusively in controlled U.S. government environments within Scale Donovan.”
  • weight
    0.85

    method: primary_testimony · locator: David Wehner pull quote

    “Our open source Llama models have tremendous potential to support America's safety and security and keep our country globally competitive. We are excited to partner with companies like Scale AI to advance this vision and bring the advantages of Llama to the U.S. national security enterprise.”