Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Palantir Builds a Secure Government AI Engine on Nvidia's Open Nemotron Models
Open weights deployed inside closed, air-gapped environments become the template for United States agency AI.
Nvidia and Palantir said Palantir's new intelligent engine uses Nvidia's Nemotron open models to serve United States government agencies inside secure environments. The framing of open models in closed environments captures why open weights…
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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs
Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.
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