“This is the first integrated technology suite of its kind that will allow critical national security missions to run Microsoft’s best-in-class Large Language Model (LLM) through Azure OpenAI services within Microsoft’s Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). Government and classified cloud environments ,” the announcement said.
Palantir is a data analytics company that collects vast amounts of personal data to aid government and corporate surveillance. From the text of the announcement, it’s somewhat unclear what services Palantir and Microsoft will offer. What we do know is that Microsoft’s Azure cloud service will integrate Palantir products. Previously, Azure included OpenAI’s Chat-GPT4 in a “top secret” version of its software.
Palantir won’t report first annual profit until 2023
Despite its massive customer list, Palantir didn’t report its first annual profit until 2023. growing up”.Alex Karp tells Bloomberg In February. Most of its business comes from governments, including the Israeli government – although the risk factors section of its annual document states that it does not and will not cooperate with the “Chinese Communist Party”.
As of this writing, Palantir’s stock price has soared more than 75% in 2024.