Forward Deployed

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For nearly 25 years, Palantir has built a unique business that few understand, inside or outside of Silicon Valley. Now, the Frontier Labs want a piece of the action. In the race to bring artificial intelligence into the real world, everyone wants to be Forward Deployed. By Nikhil Davar and Byrne Hobart.

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Five of the most valuable software companies in the world — Microsoft, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, commonly grouped together as the Frontier Labs — have, within the past 18 months, independently re-oriented themselves around a common strategy that not a single one of them originated. It is a strategy that seeks to mimic the core organizational structure, technological primitives, and the philosophy of progress embodied by a single, much smaller software company.

It’s a company that does not share the Frontier Labs’ foundational focus on developing frontier AI models: systems that they, at least publicly, believe will soon be capable of automating all economically valuable work.