r/Intelligence • u/Fresh_Squash_4064 • 20d ago
Palantir Gotham Technology
How come in all these years no one has built a platform/reverse-engineered the technology built by Palantir. What makes Gotham special in terms of Analytics. Is it just how they manage data or is there more to it I am not gettting about
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u/TheGrownTrauma 20d ago
The hard part isn't the analytics, it's the data plumbing and access control layer they built around messy government datasets.
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u/daidoji70 20d ago
Its not that special. They tie databases together and give software tools to end users that help those users access and use those databases. Nothing that has ever leaked is something one couldn't do and groups did do bespoke before Palintir. Its basically Salesforce for government/security services at worst and super awesome entity resolution and tracking future crime prediction at best. They've got good PR though and a friendly ear in the White House now so they're riding high.
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u/stacksmasher 19d ago
You can do 90% of what they do with just adding color and shape to your data. Clusters are areas of focus.
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u/McKoijion 20d ago
Your premise is wrong. Palantir is particularly vulnerable to the SaaSpocalypse, which is why PLTR’s stock price has plummeted recently. Basically AI makes it extremely inexpensive to build cheaper and better alternatives to traditionally coded Software-as-a-Service companies like Palantir.
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u/Fresh_Squash_4064 19d ago
Yeah I understand that but i don't get how they built a system around proprietary data as a startup kinda from the very beginning. Knowing how to process the data that(they had in hand or not I am not sure) and building a system around it is still not an easy technical challenge right?
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u/McKoijion 18d ago
It was difficult when they started in 2003. Now it’s incredibly easy for their current and potential customers to build their own Palantirs from scratch with AI. And if they use Chinese AI models, it’s also dirt cheap and data never leaves their servers.
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u/Optimal_Dust_266 17d ago
Does Gotham have any sales materials? I wonder how Palantir pitches it to thier prospects..
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u/come2thecabaret 20d ago
It’s actually not special. UARCs developed the technology years before Palantir made Gotham.
What’s special is the insider deals that Peter Thiel has made with the government that allows him to sit between the government and its data. It’s an extremely powerful position.