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adrian_btoday at 7:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

Palantir already offers a "turnkey AI datacenter", i.e. a rack with "NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems with eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking for AI training and inference".

It is said that it comes with all hardware and software required to run inference or training with an open weights LLM.

The existence of this product, which competes with cloud-based offerings like those of OpenAI and Anthropic, is presumably the reason why the Palantir CEO criticized very harshly some time ago the business model of OpenAI/Anthropic.

While I doubt that the ethics of Palantir is any better than of OpenAI/Anthropic, in this particular case I have to agree with Alex Karp about "Sovereign AI", i.e. that only losers will make their business completely dependent on an external entity like OpenAI or Anthropic, who are certainly not trustworthy.


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vrganjtoday at 7:53 AM

I'm not sure a data center run by ... Palantir of all organizations is what people have in mind when they worry about data sovereignty.

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rxyztoday at 11:06 AM

How is this different from buying a supermicro rack? Better support?