NVIDIA and Palantir have collaborated to bring Nemotron open models into highly secure sovereign environments for U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure operators to facilitate Sovereign AI for national security matters.

Under the new partnership, Palantir has developed a new “intelligent engine” that integrates with Nemotron models, a family of open-weight AI models, enabling organizations to deploy, customize, fine tune/train AI models on their own infrastructure, thereby retaining complete ownership of data.

According to a statement released by NVIDIA on Monday, the partnership will consist of Palantir’s Sovereign AI Operating System that handles operational and data authorization layers for easy deployment in “sensitive environments”, while NVIDIA’s Nemotron model provides a customizable and continually learning model layer.

“Together NVIDIA Nemotron Open models and Palantir’s infrastructure products enable trust through independent review of open models, customization and accessibility and lower costs due to heightened efficiency,” read a release from NVIDIA.

The NVIDIA-Palantir deal is especially critical for classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated environments where national security, data privacy, and IP protection are paramount.

“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,” says Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies.

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