Palantir Technologies, an American software company, and Microsoft Corporation announced a significant advancement in their partnership. The partnership will bring some of the most sophisticated and secure cloud, AI, and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community.
This is the first time an integrated technology suite allows critical national security missions in Microsoft’s government and classified cloud environments to operationalize Microsoft’s large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service Ms) within Palantir’s AI Platforms (AIP).
Palantir and Microsoft will provide the Defense and Intelligence Community with boot camp experiences to trial the technology as part of this partnership.
Through this partnership, 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.
This integrated solution merges Microsoft’s Azure cloud compute, and powerful language models (GPT-4 and others) with Palantir’s Foundry’s data integration and ontology capabilities and AIP’s use case building capabilities will enable operators to safely and responsibly build AI-driven operational workloads across Defense and Intelligence verticals — from logistics to contracting, to prioritization and action planning, and more.
“Bringing Palantir and Microsoft capabilities to our national security apparatus is a step in changing how we can support the defense and intelligence communities,” said Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer, Palantir. “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.”
“This expanded partnership between Microsoft and Palantir will help accelerate the safe, secure and responsible deployment of advanced AI capabilities for the U.S. government,” said Deb Cupp, President of Microsoft Americas. “Palantir, a leader in delivering actionable insights to government, will now leverage the power of Microsoft’s government and classified clouds and robust Azure OpenAI models to further develop AI innovations for national security missions.”
Additionally, the Palantir Federal Cloud Service, including Palantir’s Gotham, Foundry, AIP, Apollo, and FedStart Mission Manager Platforms, is authorized to deploy on Microsoft Azure for IL5 environments.
