No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar

Can frontiers as high-stakes as next-generation, AI-enabled defense depend on something as mundane as data integration? Can "large language models" work in such mission critical applications? In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Shyam Sankar, the Chief Technical Officer of Palantir Technologies and inventor of their famous Forward Deployed Engineering force.
Early employee and longtime leader Shyam explains the evolution of technology at Palantir, from ontology and data integration to process visualization and now AI. He describes how a company of Palantir's scale has adopted foundation models and shares customer stories. They discuss the case for open source AI models fine-tuned on private, domain-specific data, and the challenges of anchoring AI models in reality.
00:00 - Palantir's CTO Discusses Company's Background
10:17 - Apollo and AIP
20:25 - Future of UI and Application Integration
28:29 - Investment in Co-Pilot Models and Education
31:22 - Exploring AI Implementation in Various Industries
38:19 - Operational and Analytical Workflows in Context

[@zuma404]

Shyam is awesome 🔥

[@ADAMIC-pp8fj]

The perceived 'complexity' of what palantir is trying to do is all going to look very obvious to people in the near future. You can't just continually patch new tech onto a foundational structure that isn't fit for purpose and palantir have been very focused on what that foundational structure will need to be

[@simonnilsson5356]

Torally agree. How replicable is it though? They’ve put 15+ years into this which will give a tremendous head start; but how hard will it be to copy the logic and platforms for the data structure, ontology etc.?

[@bossdonwaveify]

Buying only PLTR shares

[@simonnilsson5356]

Awesome interview! This is the frontier of integrating LLMs into the enterprise and give great insight into how the market will develop. Invaluable honestly.

[@Col-T-Invest]

Fantastic interview, thanks. Its increasingly clear what a big deal this company is.

[@palantirresearch]

Great to see a more relaxed interview Shyam and getting his perspective 👍

[@zerac5036]

thanks for getting Shyam for the interview

[@ImperiumVita]

Great Interview, Shayam's insights regarding AI and Palantir's role in providing enterprises with a clear ontology are invaluable.

[@psychepilot7351]

Great choice for interview.

[@brethitmanhart275]

To beat Midwest to it.......PLTR to the moon....!!!!!!!

[@AHofmann25]

Yeah Shyam!

[@cameronvincent]

Lets goooooooo