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