It’s been a big couple days in the increasingly active defense tech sector.
Today, Microsoft and Palantir announced they will bundle their AI services for U.S. military and intelligence, with Microsoft contributing GPT-4 and other OpenAI models, and Palantir throwing in its targeting, data-analysis, and action-proposing tools. This is the first partnership around deploying Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in classified environments, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar noted in a statement—though Microsoft, on its own, did deploy GPT-4 to its Azure Government Top Secret environment in May. And of course, the relevant government agencies still need to bite.
