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Two large defense tech role player , Palantir and Anduril , are tattle to tech company including SpaceX , OpenAI , Saronic , and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts , concord toa story in the Financial Times .
The goal , the FT say , is to challenge the dominance of “ prime ” defense contractors like Lockheed Martin , Raytheon , and Boeing . One unnamed participant described this as an feat to “ provide a young propagation of defence contractors , ” while another said this will be a more effective elbow room to sell the government cutting - edge weapon system and other technical school .
Initial partnerships could be herald as shortly as January , accord to the report .
Palantir and Anduril ( both named after magical point in J.R.R. Tolkien ’s “ Lord of the Rings ” ) suggest that something like this was in the works earlier this month , withan integration announcementbetween Palantir ’s AI Platform and Anduril ’s Lattice software . At the time , the company said they were “ launching a new consortium to ensure that the U.S. government activity leads the world in artificial intelligence . ”
