Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to government

“This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated technology stack that will enable critical national security missions to operationalize Microsoft’s best-in-class large language models (LLMs) through Azure OpenAI on Palantir’s AI Platforms (AIPs) in Microsoft’s government and classified cloud environments.” the ad says.

Palantir is a data analytics company that absorbs huge amounts of personal data to lend a hand governments and companies with surveillance. It’s not clear from the announcement what services Palantir and Microsoft will offer. We do know that Microsoft’s Azure cloud services will integrate Palantir products. Azure previously included OpenAI’s Chat-GPT4 in a “top secret” version of his software.

Despite her long list of clientsPalantir has not published its first annual profit by 2023. But the AI ​​hype cycle has caused Palantir’s “commercial business to explode in ways we don’t know how to handle,” the company’s CEO said Alex Carp said Bloomberg in FebruaryMost of its activity comes from governments, including Israel — although the risk factors section of the annual report notes that it does not and will not cooperate with the “Chinese Communist Party.”

At the time of this writing, Palantir’s stock price is up more than 75 percent in 2024.