Microsoft, Palantir team up to provide AI services to US defense, intelligence agencies

Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are collaborating to bring secure cloud, AI, and analytics capabilities to the U.S. defense and intelligence community.

Under the agreement, the companies will integrate Microsoft’s large language models, or LLMs, via cloud platform, Azure OpenAI service with Palantir’s AI Platform, or AIP, in Microsoft’s government and classified cloud environments.

The integrated solution will include Microsoft’s Azure cloud compute and LLMs, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, and others with Palantir’s Foundry data integration and ontology capabilities, and AI platform. It will help operators safely build AI-driven operational workloads across defense and intelligence verticals, according to the companies.

“Palantir AIP has pioneered the approach to operationalizing AI value – beyond chat — across the enterprise. It’s our mission to deliver this software advantage and we’re thrilled to be the first industry partner to deploy Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in classified environments,” said Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar,

Palantir will deploy its suite of products – Foundry, Gotham, Apollo, and AIP – in Microsoft Azure Government and in the Azure Government Secret (DoD Impact Level 6) and Top Secret clouds.

Palantir will also use Azure’s OpenAI Service in Microsoft’s Secret and Top Secret environments, the companies added.

The two companies will provide the defense and intelligence agencies with bootcamp experiences to trial the technology.

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