At AIPCon, a special invitation-only event hosted by Palantir Technologies (PLTR), CEO Alex Karp laid out how the company can apply lessons learned in the context of war to drive business and productivity growth.
Karp emphasized that its relationship with the US government continues: The US Department of Defense recently disclosed a five-year $480 million contract with Palantir to work on a project known as Maven to develop a smart system that will provide warfighters and intelligence analysts with faster and more accurate information on the battlefield for tasks such as identifying enemy targets.
“This country is focused on using AI to have a structural advantage in how we deploy and understand the battlefield,” Karp told Yahoo Finance (video above) at AIPCon in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. “And Palantir plays a crucial role in that arena.”
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp…