Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Palantir Builds Secure AI for United States Agencies on Nvidia's Open Nemotron Models
The deployment runs open-weight models inside closed government environments, a template for sovereign AI that runs without calling an external commercial service.

Palantir has introduced an engine that uses Nvidia's open Nemotron models to serve United States government agencies inside closed environments, Nvidia said. The emphasis is on open-source models running in secure, air-gapped settings rathe…
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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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