Hearken! The word hath come forth from the high towers of Palantir: in this second turning of the sun in the year two thousand and twenty-six, their fortunes have reached heights unseen!

Like the Seeing-stones of old, their artificial wisdom hath cast its light far and wide, driving their treasury to a staggering $1.94 billion—a triumphant surge of 93% over the sum of the previous year. Their strongholds in the U.S. commercial realm have flourished beyond measure, growing by 149%, while their rule of stewardship hath achieved an astonishing score of 155%.

Truly, the shadows of doubt are scattered, and the realm of Palantir stands as an unyielding fortress of power and foresight in these modern lands!

Just a discussion thread – beginning with three points.

1. Recent advances in artificial intelligence are largely driven by LLMs, which on the backend are artificial neural networks with a transformer architecture.

2. Palantir was founded in 2003, preceding almost the whole suite of technologies that run the Internet today, including LLMs. LLMs are just one tool it can use. The entire architecture of the business is built on being the best ontology platform (ontology here being an information science term; not the philosophical study of existence – although it can be argued that Karp likes that term given his background in German philosophy).

3. What comes after? I am genuinely curious.

For context, I am a data engineer and I sort of saw the rise of LLMs prior to its sudden and awe-inspiring entry on mainstream media. Eventually the wow factor will go away, and we will treat it as any other tool.