Palantir, Oracle cosy up to offer Karp firm's tech across Big Red's cloud

Palantir and Oracle are hooking up to promote the US spy-tech company's technology on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform.

The "significant collaboration" - according to a corporate missive - will allow Palantir to offer its Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), across all of Oracle's distributed cloud deployment options.

Palantir was founded with the help of CIA-backed investment fund In-Q-Tel and it attracted a certain controversy by providing digital profiling tools for the CIA and US immigration agency ICE. Its motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp has not shied away from justifying its roots in the context of modern politics. He has previously claimed, among other things, that the so-called "woke" political movement was a "a form of a thin pagan religion" which was "corrupting and corroding our institutions."

Under the terms of the arrangement, Oracle is set to provide distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities to support Palantir's AI and data analytics platforms. Palantir already has agreements with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, which together make up 67 percent of the entire global cloud spend.

Oracle has different packages within its cloud product set with regional governance and compliance in mind, including public cloud regions, OCI Dedicated Regions, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, and Oracle Government Cloud, for example.

The deal with Palantir is designed to convince organizations to take up Oracle's systems sectors while maintaining security and compliance. The hope is that it will enable integration with other AI services on Big Red's cloud, such as Oracle Digital Assistant and Oracle AI Services, offering pre-trained models for various tasks, such as language recognition, image analysis, and anomaly detection.

Has Oracle ramped up its own push into analytics and AI? Earlier this year, it introduced an OCI Generative AI service to make money from letting customers build machine learning models from their own data, including integrating Oracle Database 23c with AI Vector Search and MySQL HeatWave with Vector Store.

While Oracle offers its own big data, analytics and AI technologies, it is offering to play nice with another provider, too. For example, with Databricks, a data lake, analytics and AI company, it developed a means for the pair to access each other's data across clouds.

Data lake platform Cloudera is available on OCI while Snowflake uses OCI GoldenGate to integrate data across OCI and its cloud data warehouse, analytics and AI platforms. ®