Palantir contracted to build US army’s ‘first AI-defined vehicle’

Published on March 11, 2024

A grey military truck on a road. The truck is a Titan prototype.

Palantir said the Titan project aims to create ground stations that can access space, high altitude, aerial and terrestrial data to give soldiers a full view of their surroundings.

Palantir, a US data firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has won a US Army contract worth $178.4m to bring AI and machine learning into one of its military vehicles.

The project is called the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node – or Titan – and aims to create a ground station that can access various forms of data to support military operations. Palantir has been contracted to build 10 Titan prototypes, consisting of a basic and an “advanced” variant.

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