Palantir

“they are essentially traditional management consultants with fancy data analytic dashboards instead of PowerPoint decks and charge an even more obscene premium for the privilege”

“Its because of the business relationship with the Israeli government and how Palintirs tech has been used as a tool in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.”

“Palantir thinks they're going to make their own frontier model by fine tuning Nemotron, good luck with that.”

“Palantir is not just analyzing data, but, it is increasingly wired into operational decisions like deportations, policing, health-data access, military targeting and public-sector workflows.”

“Palantir isn't selling consulting as much as Palantir is selling the confidence you get from buying a name brand.”

“we’re already seeing Palintir do this in Ukraine trying to get AI to work for e.g. drone warfare with what they claim is mixed success”

“Palantir's profit comes from real customers paying real money for their real products.”

“the ludicrous marketing/communications operation Palantir is running doesn't make any of this any simpler to reason about”

“delivering what it's asked for, instead of just stringing the government along like the other contractors do”

“Relative to other government contractors, Palantir is pretty good. More so because the bar is typically so low, though.”

“Palantir makes data management software, they've never been in the business of collecting or analysing data themselves”

“It's a data platform, provides interesting connections in the data. But that's where its utility ends.”

“a healthcare administrator can make a rational argument that their patient information should not be handled by the same company”

“Companies all over the world trust their proprietary data with Palantir platforms.”

“it's just a company that—like it or not—has been relatively successful at securing massive contracts with the government and major corporations”

“Think of it like a consulting shop that can deliver customized software instead of just slide decks and excel workbooks.”

“I'd almost rather Palantir runs it, since the DoW would force them to implement very strict data isolation features”

“Palantir is one rung up from those places when it comes to talent/ability to deliver”

“there really isn't any other company at this scale capable of doing the sort of work Palantir does”

“it's a really advanced search and discovery tool for combing through thousands of unstructured files”

“Putting all our PII into one huge repository and then letting corps and govts access it sounds like a dystopian nightmare. This is why we don't like Palantir.”

“Palantir has somehow managed to actually collaborate with the government, sending forward-deployed engineers to figure out what their actual needs are”

“It holds deeply sensitive data and does so in the US. In times of increased mistrust of the US, many (including myself) see that as a risky choice.”

“They are considered a threat to privacy and freedom because they are a good product”

“other agencies have been using palantir (and other data whores) to sidestep established norms on gathering/using information against its citizens”

“They're paid to get all kinds of sensitive information from governments and other institutions around the world and store it in their very "secure" data centers.”

“Some of their stuff for handling data and versioned pipelines seem very well done.”

“Palantir is just the data platform. Yeah, they have algorithms and software for aggregating large amounts if data and connecting them.”

“I'm never sure why people assume that Palantir is magically unlike the overwhelming majority of tech startups/companies I've worked at: vastly over promising what is possible”

“I certainly think that Palantir has ethical issues; as I stated in my parent comment, it wouldn't be high on my list of choices for places to work.”

“they purposefully named themselves after a super villains magical spy apparatus so I'm not inclined to take his word about them being ethically neutral”

“Except that the owners of AWS (Amazon) GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) are all defense contractors for the Department of War.”

“the relationship is between you and the specific employees - who in turn need to have Federal clearances”

“I have heard some positive feedback about Palantir's data integration capabilities”

“An ERP where instead of investing in building up your in-house domain experts, your pay consulting fees to train another company's staff on the knowledge, then pay to access it.”

“it may well be terrible software, but Palantir are effectively an arm of the new Trumpian state”

“it allows for automated analysis of gigantic swaths of data, and can make conclusions and inferences that would be otherwise invisible to the human eye”

“I am fairly certain that Palantir, like many companies before it, will evolve from a sort-of product company into more of a consulting company.”

“PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX (as an early investor), and backing young founders through the Thiel Fellowship have created massive value and progress.”

“A corporation, founded by a Stanford grad who's been giving talks on the Antichrist, who's business is to spy on everyone and create a panopticon”