Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts

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13 points·nsoonhui··5 comments

I feel like this was always going to happen. Regardless of the hand wringing over bringing AI and robotics into warfare I never felt any headway was made and on the flipside far too much money to be had.

(ugh paywall)

One common link between Palantir and Andruil is that they are both in the Peter Thiel constellation. One founder, Stephens, was very involved in the Defence transition team for Trump's first term. Also, another of the Andruil founders, Luckey, perviously left Facebook because of his strong pro-Trump views (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries).

Does this give them any inside track?

Of course, it'll give them inside track. This is crony capitalism.

When Musk was busy spouting off conspiracies about Biden admin, SpaceX still won a lot of grants. That sort of independence is going to be dead.

Half (if not more) of the leadership on andruils are from palantir. Schimpf was a senior director there and his wife was the head of infosec at palantir in the last decade

It always looked to me like palantir was the software side and Andruil was the hardware side of the same basic business.

These articles of the two companies “teaming up” always amused me because if you know the players from Palantir’s growth phase it always looked like the OGs from palantir jumped to a new startup for another cycle of unicorn funding when the ride was ending

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