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Reflections on Palantir

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479 points freditup | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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newprint ◴[16 Oct 24 02:50 UTC] No.41855137[source]▶
Can someone explain to me what is the Palantir's business model ? I haven't heard any large, meaningful project they been involved in, but I keep hearing the company name & how hot they are and their stocks are going to blow-up any day (some of my friends kept their stocks for the last 4-5 years with very little gain compared to other software companies). I know of the smaller software companies that are less than 100 people and have a very meaningful impact in DoD & Gov space.
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swordsmith ◴[16 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41863854[source]▶
I use Foundry for work. It makes data ingestion, cleaning, quality check and automation easy. After all the data is ingested, running analysis/RAG on them become extremely easy.

Basically, it's end-to-end data engineering and analytics. And the more a company uses/invests into the platform, the more benefit and locked-in they are.

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1. hermitcrab ◴[16 Oct 24 22:32 UTC] No.41864520[source]▶
RAG?
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2. mandevil ◴[16 Oct 24 22:45 UTC] No.41864622[source]▶
Retrieval Augmented Generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation

Basically, using your actual data/documents to supplement a general purpose LLM and generate better answers for your specific use case.