Palantir announced a new intelligent engine using NVIDIA Nemotron open models to help U.S. government agencies deploy cu

Open source software has long anchored American technology leadership. Beginning with the infrastructure that became the internet in 1969, the United States pioneered open source languages like UNIX in 1969 and C in 1972, which enabled subsequent breakthroughs including the Linux Kernel in 1991, GitHub in 2008 and Docker in 2013.

Today open models make frontier-level AI broadly accessible while preserving control through transparency. They enable enterprises and government agencies to inspect, adapt and deploy AI in sensitive environments, which is essential for national security, corporate sustainability and industrial innovation. With domain-optimized harnesses, strong open models can deliver frontier capabilities while customers retain control over proprietary data, model weights and deployment environments.

Palantir's announcement integrates NVIDIA Nemotron open models into air-gapped environments — secure setups completely isolated from unsecured networks — running on NVIDIA accelerated computing. Palantir will use Nemotron to build custom frontier-quality models for the U.S. government, which operates much like a large enterprise across commerce, energy, healthcare, agriculture, education and transportation with about 3 million civilian employees.

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. Palantir's Sovereign AI Operating System, built on AIP, Ontology, Foundry and Apollo, handles the operational and data authorization layer for easy deployment in sensitive environments, with explicit data authorization, architecturally enforced isolation and full auditability.

As customized models are used in production, agencies can continually improve them within their own environments using new data and feedback, creating a data flywheel that optimizes performance while keeping data, models and auditability under customer control. The combination of NVIDIA Nemotron open models with Palantir's critical infrastructure products bolsters U.S. technology leadership for government agencies and commercial businesses, with the ability to run models on air-gapped NVIDIA-powered infrastructure to keep data and models secure.