Open Models, Closed Environments: Palantir Brings Secure AI to US Agencies With NVIDIA Nemotron
NVIDIA Blog · Justin Boitano · 2026-06-29
Palantir launches an AI engine built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models that deploys in air-gapped environments, allowing U.S. government agencies to run and continuously improve customized frontier-quality AI while retaining full ownership of model weights and training data.
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- Palantir's new intelligent engine uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models deployed in air-gapped environments to serve U.S. government agencies.
- Agencies can train models on their own data and retain full ownership of the resulting model weights within their own infrastructure.
- A continuous data flywheel within customer-controlled environments enables ongoing model improvement without exposing proprietary data externally.
- Palantir's Sovereign AI Operating System provides architecturally enforced isolation, explicit data authorization, and full auditability for sensitive deployments.
- Approximately two-thirds of companies already use open models and cite cost efficiency as an important factor for AI that can scale.
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Open models are making frontier-level AI broadly accessible, with control over customization and trust through transparency.
Agencies and operators can run customized Nemotron models on their own infrastructure, train on their own data and retain full ownership of the resulting models — including the weights that encode their operational knowledge.
Together, NVIDIA Nemotron open models and Palantir's critical infrastructure products enable trust, accessibility, control and lower costs.