After accusing Flock of coercive behavior and trying to lock police into its products, Axon tries to eat its ex-partner’s lunch. It’s announced new AI and drone tech too.
Apr 22, 2025, 12:00pm EDT Axon Enterprise s CEO and founder Rick Smith said he had been embarrassed to have recommended Flock Safety tech to police departments. merica’s biggest police tech provider Axon has announced a range of new products this week, including two AI-powered license plate reader s and car surveillance technologies. The launches will up the ante in its fierce rivalry with Flock Safety , the $7.5 billion venture backed startup that sells a suite of car surveillance tools.
Axon’s first new product is a pole-mounted license plate reader, which Flock has been specializing in since its founding in 2017. For the second – a way to retrofit existing streetlights with the car surveillance tech — Axon turned to the same partner, smart streetlight company Ubicquia, that Flock began working with in 2023.
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