Palantir Technologies is a data analytics and software company specializing in building platforms for

integrating, analyzing, and visualizing large data sets. The company's tools are designed to help

analysts and decision makers collaborate on data-driven solutions to complex problems, and they

have worked extensively across the intelligence, defense, and commercial sectors.

Akshai Krishna Swami is the chief architect at Palantir, and Chris Jaganathan is a group lead at Palantir.

They join the podcast to talk about the evolution of Palantir, its technology, the AIP platform, and more.

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him.

Okay, Jeg, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having us. Yeah, awesome. So,

Occi, you've been at Palantir a long time, I think around 12 years. So I wanted to get a little bit of your background on the company, like it's area of focus, how it's changed during your time for

anybody who maybe is less familiar with Palantir?

Yeah, I think it's always a tall order to try to summarize things, but I guess being here

for 12 years makes me a bit of a Palantir boomer, I think in kind of at least relative terms.

Maybe just to give the very abridged version, the company was founded in the aftermath of

September 11th, very much focused on a set of counterterrorism missions across U.S. and

allied governments. Kind of the principal problem at first was how can you solve the fragmented

data problem to be able to make better decisions in the context of certain national security

missions? And it turned out like there was a lot of technology that had to be built around

data integration and being able to enable frontline analysts and soldiers

to be able to make better decisions. And kind of the core technology there around being able to

integrate data and then link it to operations ended up being kind of this like common theme,

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