Palantir and Nvidia Deploy Nemotron Model in Sovereign Environments on June 29; Sacks Backs Karp's Critique of AI Labs

According to reports, on June 29, Palantir and Nvidia announced a collaboration to deploy Nvidia's Nemotron open AI model within sovereign environments, primarily serving U.S. government and critical infrastructure clients. The partnership integrates Nvidia AI technology with Palantir's AIP, Foundry, Ontology, and Apollo platforms, enabling organizations to train, customize, and deploy AI locally while maintaining full control over data, intellectual property, and model weights.

David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, published a post supporting Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent criticism of frontier AI labs. Sacks argued that true "AI safety" in enterprise environments means controlling one's own data, model weights, and compute power—not abstract alignment research or government certification schemes. He emphasized that enterprises should avoid ceding proprietary knowledge to third parties that might later commercialize it as competing products.