Palantir and NVIDIA Bring Nemotron Models to Sovereign AI Deployments

Palantir Technologies has announced an initiative with NVIDIA to develop an AI engine that enables the deployment of NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models in sovereign environments, targeting US government agencies and operators of critical infrastructure.

The joint offering combines NVIDIA’s AI platform, including its compute infrastructure, AI ecosystem and Nemotron open models, with Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), Foundry, Ontology and Apollo. 

The companies said the platform allows organisations to train, deploy and improve open models while retaining control over their data, intellectual property and AI systems.

The platform includes capabilities such as explicit data authorisation, customer-specific isolation, secure perimeter enforcement, data portability, right to erasure and audit logs. 

Customers will also be able to own and improve models tailored to their operational requirements by using telemetry, trace data and post-training feedback generated within their environments.

The companies said the offering enables US government agencies to deploy base and customised Nemotron models in classified, air-gapped and other sensitive environments. It also supports context engineering to optimise prompts and workflows, model engineering to modify model weights using proprietary data, and enterprise deployment through NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA NIM microservices.

“Combining Palantir infrastructure with NVIDIA’s AI and Nemotron models will allow the U.S. government to unleash the full power of LLMs while removing the underlying security risks and rational concerns around proprietary insights migrating into the weights of closed models,” said Alex Karp, Co-founder and CEO of Palantir. “Moreover, many of our US clients are already using these models, including multiple supporting critical US infrastructure — both private and public — and this will facilitate their radical expansion.”

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said open-source AI is becoming increasingly important for national security and public safety.

“Open source AI is foundational to national security, public safety and U.S. technology leadership,” Huang said. “Palantir's Nemotron-powered intelligent engine shows how open models can strengthen America’s leadership in AI — giving U.S. government agencies a secure, customisable and fully controlled foundation to build mission-critical AI systems in support of national security.”

The announcement builds on the companies’ previously announced Sovereign AI Operating System Reference Architecture, which is intended to help governments deploy and manage AI systems within their own infrastructure.