Aakash GuptaLead source
South Korea cloned its best drug-sniffing dog seven times back in 2007, and all seven puppies passed a test that 7 out of 10 regular dogs fail. Now Sequoia and the CIA's venture fund just put $200 million into doing that for the US military. The dog was a Labrador named Chase. Korean customs named every one of his clones Toppy, short for Tomorrow's Puppy. Six of them went to work at airports and harbors across the country, and the seventh only missed out because he got hurt. Korean police tried the same thing years later with an explosives dog and got 80% of the clones through training, which cut their training costs by about 65%. Compare that to how the US gets its dogs today. The Pentagon buys more than 80% of its working dogs from Europe, mostly from breeders in Germany and the…Read original on X