Matt Bevan

For instance, Gotham, Palantir's military and law enforcement software, was different from its logistics software, which was called Foundry.

But then something came along that was going to put Palantir's marble sorting technology into hyperdrive.

Let's start with this language AI, ChatGPT.

What is it?

Great question.

In 2022, people were starting to get excited about the potential uses of large language models like ChatGPT.

It can create custom code.

It can create entire books that are written from scratch, that are not plagiarised.

But at Palantir, they were quickly coming to a realisation.

They had been building software that was to be used by humans, but the way they built it was also perfect for large language models.

Palantir's Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said that LLMs, large language models, weren't just great at reading their data maps.

but needed their data maps in order to be reliable.

It's like, wow, you actually cannot unleash the value of an LLM without these things.

They had, purely by luck, spent 20 years building a system that organized data in a way that could be intuitively read by the new wave of AI systems.

And it was laid out in an ideal way for the AI system to produce reliable information.

They developed something called the Palantir AIP, which stands for Artificial Intelligence Platform.

AIP is your AI operating system.

Now, individual users don't need to look at the marbles on the table at all.

They can just use AIP, which sits on top of the marbles and looks at them for you, making connections far faster and more nuanced than any human could.

Instead of handling a few marbles, it can handle millions all at once.