Nvidia's strategic partnership with Palantir signifies a significant shift from consumer technology to powering advanced surveillance and military applications, raising concerns about the acceleration of AI-driven control and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties.
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Nvidia sells entertainment and video
gaming to consumers, and they sell
weapons and surveillance to governments.
Just this year, Nvidia vastly increased
its lobbying efforts by over $3 million.
It spent millions with the current US
administration, including a $10 million
donation to the White House ballroom, [music]
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$1 million to the inauguration, and
more. Nvidia also partnered with the US
government's favorite AI military mass
surveillance software company,
Palunteer. That's in spite of the fact
that those two companies were arguing
about China just weeks before because
Nvidia will work with anybody when the
money is good.
>> Palanteer is going to integrate Nvidia
so that we could process at the speed of
light in an extraordinary scale.
>> If you're not familiar with Palunteer,
here's everything you need to know.
>> Our product is used on occasion to kill people.
people.
>> And safe means that the other person is scared.
scared.
>> Palanteer was co-founded by Peter Teal,
part of what's known as the PayPal mafia
of the past. and he's also a
multi-billionaire who thinks freedom and
democracy are incompatible. Palanter's
other co-founder and current CEO is Alex
Karp, seen here after shoving a fork
into an outlet. And his mindset appeals
to angsty teenagers.
>> I don't think in win lose, I think in domination.
domination.
>> Palanteer is known for being the
purveyor of mass surveillance and its
corresponding fuckups like its system
helping law enforcement detain the wrong
people based on faulty data and enabling
rogue employees to spy on co-workers.
Meanwhile, the US government is relaxing
AI regulations to rush through more data
center construction. Recently, President
Trump posted that quote, "There must be
only one rulebook with some weird
capitalization that seems like a one
ring to rule them all thing if we are
going to continue to lead an AI. We are
beating all countries at this point in
the race," he said. But that won't last
long if we are going to have 50 states,
which is it. What What do you mean? What
do you mean if we're going to have 50
states? Quote continues, "Many of them
bad actors." End quote. before later
saying that quote, "You can't expect a
company to get 50 approvals every time
they want to do something." End quote.
We can see why Jensen likes him so much,
leaving no opportunity unmonetized.
Nvidia and Palanteer are increasing the
speed at which AI data centers are built
on the US's already strained power grid,
which is predicted to increase energy
bills and electricity blackouts across
the country. to better understand what
it is Jensen Juan and Nvidia are so
excited to partner with. We're first
digging into Palunteer and then later in
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Now back to it. On October 28th, Nvidia
held a rare Washington DCbased GTC
keynote where Nvidia announced its
partnership with controversial data
mining and war profitering company
Palunteer whose CEO in the past has said
things like this.
>> Bad times are very good for Palanteer.
>> As for Nvidia, this was their announcement.
announcement.
>> I have a second announcement. This is
the single fastest enterprise [music]
company in the world.
Probably the single most important
enterprise stack in the world today.
[music] Palanteer Ontology.
>> With that announcement, Nvidia
officially went from powering
firstperson shooter video games to powering
powering
real person shooters. Palanteer has
historically run its platforms on cloud
providers like AWS and Azure, but it's
now integrating Nvidia's computing stack
to bolster performance. As Jensen Juan
put it,
>> Palanteer is going to integrate Nvidia
so that we could process at the speed of
light and at extraordinary scale. In
addition to Nvidia's hardware, Palanteer
will adopt Nvidia's CUDA X libraries and
Neotron models into its AI framework.
We'll start with the most obvious but
most difficult question about Palanteer,
which is
what the [ __ ] is it? Palanteer got its
name from the Palanteeri, which are the
all powerful scene stones from Lord of
the Rings that allow users to see far
and wide. The not not not that one. The
There we go. That's the right one. The
stones are the very ones that Dark Lord
Sauron used to corrupt Saurroman with.
So, you know, they they named their
company after that. Great start.
Probably should have read the book a
little more. For those unfamiliar with
Palanteer, the company started in
Silicon Valley in 2003 before relocating
to Denver, Colorado. It started with a
self-described mission of quote building
datadriven operations and
decision-making [music] software. Here's
a behind-the-scenes look at one of the
company's old advertisements.
>> The future of information systems and
robotics, the future of national defense,
defense,
Cyberine System.
>> I I I don't know how that got in there.
Early on, Palanteer worked with and was
backed by the CIA. But Palanteer
eventually branched out to work with the
FBI, ICE, and the DoD. And then when it
got bored of having partners with only
three letters and wanted more, it worked
with state and local law enforcement.
The DoD previously awarded Palanteer a
$10 billion contract in August. The DoD
said it received just one bid for the
$10 billion contract. In an attempt to
fight the baddies or something,
Palanteer created its Gotham platform,
which the company says offers AIdriven
combat superiority. If you want to think
of Palanteer as the analog to Cyberdine,
then Gotham could be thought of as its
skynet without the artificial
intelligence capabilities being AI
sensient for now at least. Gotham
compiles data from sensors, cameras, and
reports and can give users recommended
courses of action through a chat GBT
style chat box. You watch a snippet from
this video to see it in action.
Satellites in orbit high above the Earth
can look through any window in any
building in any city anywhere in the world.
world.
>> Wait, sorry, that's that's Cyber Dying
again from Terminator. Here's the right
one this time.
>> We start with a military operator
responsible for monitoring activity
within Eastern Europe. They've just
received an alert that military
equipment is amassed in a field 30
[music] km from friendly forces. AIP
leverages large language models to allow
operators to quickly ask questions.
Show me more details.
They ask what enemy units are in the
region and leverage [music] AI to build
out a likely unit formation.
What enemy military unit is in [music]
the region?
>> This RTS looking interface leverages
so-called AI to identify and destroy
things. If you haven't been following
the news, AI detection has already been
used by law enforcement to wrongfully
arrest people after facial recognition
tools wrongfully matched people's faces
with prior perpetrators. These aren't
always Palanteer, but this is a thing
that's getting widespread. So, applying
this to dropping bombs from the sky via
Palanteer is the next obvious natural
progression. The tool provides a bird's
eyee example of what a battlefield
scenario might look like. And
Palanteer's video provides a specific
example of how an operator can use
Gotham to tell a drone to fly over to a
specific region to gather more footage
of potential hidden hostiles or just
kill them.
>> Task the MQ9 to capture video of this location.
Look, we're actually not using these
clips just to be funny anymore. This
whole thing sounds eerily similar to
Skynet's advertisements in Terminator.
>> Skynet can react instantly with anything
from a strategic [music] air strike
using a single drone to the deployment
of 10 armored divisions or the Sixth
Fleet. The company named its platform
Gotham because we guess it sees the
world as a crimeridden hell hole riddled
with super villains that need to be
stopped. In that capacity, at least
they're right. The world is a
crimeridden hell hole riddled with super
villains. It's just the super villains
here are the ones with the AI grift who
are widening the divide between normal
people and the trillionaires who benefit
from all of this technology. The name
Gotham is also probably heavily inspired
by this specific scene from The Dark
Knight in which Batman invents a
controversial highfrequency generator
that uses smartphones to spy on the
denisens of Gotham. The movie basically
alluded to its existence as a necessary
evil. We guess Palanteer leaned into the
evil part by naming its spying system
Gotham. At least in the movie though,
there's a kill switch and Lucius Fox
ends up shutting it down. Now, killing
people isn't the only thing that
Palanteer does. Palanteer has also
seeped its way into non-defense sectors
of the government like the IRS or some
of the federal public health agencies.
It eventually went public in 2020 and
transitioned to work with private
enterprises. The company created
Palanteer Foundry which as described as
the quote operating system for the
modern enterprise end quote like Gotham
but applied to enterprise. Palanteer
Foundry was basically specified to help
companies increase productivity from the
data that they've harvested and mined or
just gathered from the course of doing
business. and Palanteer is now used in a
wide variety of industries that include
finance, healthcare, manufacturing,
military, and more. The company now
reportedly serves over 150 countries and
has offices across North America,
Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and
Australia. Beyond country borders and
governments, Palanteer has numerous
enterprise customers. Envzone reported
that Fiat Chrysler has used Palanteer to
identify faulty car parts. Airbus, they
say, has used Palanteer to address
manufacturing issues and BP has used it
to increase oil production. Other
high-profile customers include Walmart
and Wendy's. Now, personally, I'm
looking forward to when Wendy can not
only bomb your intestines from within,
but also bomb your vehicle from orbit
because you didn't go through the
drive-thru fast enough. At GTC, Nvidia
CEO Jensen Juan showcased how Lowe's was
using Palanteer to optimize its business
decisions. The retailer has purportedly
created a digital replica of its global
supply chain, and Nvidia cited how its
partnership with Palanteer could help
the home improvement chain pivot its
shipping logistics whenever things like
unpredictable weather may cause
international shipping delays. But
Jensen didn't cover all of the use cases
that Lowe's has for AI. And you should
know about some of the other use cases
for AI that companies like Lowe's
deploy. Now look, Flock is a different
company from Palunteer, but they're all
kind of doing similar things, which is
building out AI, facial recognition, and
people profiling solutions that we think
you should be concerned about. So, let's
take a closer look at some of these
other examples of concerns with AI and
corporate overreach. Home Depot and
Lowe's have both used Flock security
cameras and plate readers, and they
share that data with the police. 404
media reported, quote, "The sheriff's
office is able to tap into flock license
plate reading cameras at 173 different
Lowe's locations around the US." End
quote. And that the Flock cameras,
quote, constantly scan the license
plates of cars that drive by. Because
there are Flock cameras around the
country, Flock often has a snapshot of
people's movements, which police can
search, typically without a warrant."
End quote. That's right. These systems,
like the one we showed at the beginning
of this video, can build a profile on
you. They can look at things like the
bumper stickers on your car and start to
figure out what ideologies you might
associate with. Maybe you have a band
that's somewhat political as a bumper
sticker on the car. It could also though
look at where you go, who you associate
with, the vehicles of your friends, your
friends, the associates who are nearby,
people who are just in the frame who
might not be good people but you happen
to be next to. It could also in theory
look at whether you go to a church, a
mosque, a synagogue, or none of them at
all and determine what kind of religious
background you might have or lack of it.
Further, these could look at if you've
attended any protests or perhaps
wrongfully associate you with some kind
of crime like a break-in or maybe
associate you with a riot simply for
walking near while it happened. While
Nvidia talks about optimizing the
workflow of something like the Lowe's
warehouse for shipping logistics, the
real AI use of these department stores
now also includes tracking and
profiling. Less sinister or maybe not.
They can also use this technology to
look at how long you linger in front of
a store shelf before deciding not to buy
the thing you're looking at and then
later shovel ads of that thing in front
of you until you finally cave and
decide, you know what, I actually did
want that when I saw it in the store.
About a week ago, in front of this
suspected ICE field office, there were
two camera surveillance towers that look
sort of like this. These surveillance
towers include license plate readers.
So, when I drove away from it, it tagged
my car and then it'll add it to a
profile that exists for everywhere else
I've driven with one of these security
apparati. Private companies can use this
information to track movements of people
around town in their car. And you could
see situations where it might be useful
to apply parallel construction to put
somebody in proximity to a manufactured
scandal of some kind. For this modern
surveillance is part of a new concerning
trend which is the idea of a pre-rime
apparatus where law enforcement are now
taking information that is supposed to
be predictive of a crime that might
happen [music] to then act on it and in
theory prevent it if it were ever going
to happen. like some kind of weird
minority report type of situation.
[music] This could be used against
anybody where for the right price,
especially if you run a large company,
[music] you might have access to data
like this that profile someone
everywhere they've ever been, everywhere
their car has ever been monitored,
what's on the back of their car, what
those bumper stickers might tell you
about their associations or their
political beliefs or otherwise. All of
that is for sale. It's not only for use
by governments, but is being funneled
through private [music] companies that
are fueling the AI bubble as we know it.
Now, the particular towers that we saw
recently were in front of a suspected
ICE detention facility in North
Carolina. And this branch was recently
accused of throwing a US citizen into a
van and driving away with him before
later dumping him on the side of the
road to walk back to his work site. So
at this point it does feel like a real
dystopian Skynet is among us and it's
being accelerated by Nvidia which more
than ever is targeting and appealing to
governments rather than basically anyone
else. But let's talk about some of the
monetary impacts following the
announcement between Nvidia and
Palanteer. Both companies stock rose by
over 7% and Nvidia became the first
company to hit a >> [music]
>> [music]
>> $5 trillion market cap. Considering
Nvidia became the first company to hit a
$4 trillion market cap just a few months
prior back in July, the bubble is
brewing quickly. The news that Nvidia
and Palanteer became fast partners came
as a little bit of a surprise because
Palanteer chief technology officer
Cheyam Sanker recently penned an opinion
piece on October 17th just 11 days
before the GTC keynote announcement. It
was published in the Wall Street Journal
with a page that reads, quote, "Jensen
Juan is wrong about China." End quote.
In it, the CTO talks about the tensions
between the United States and China and
wrote quote, "Mr. Juan says sub quote
doesn't have to be all us or them. It
could be us and them." And sub quote and
end quote. Sanker asserted that this
wasn't possible. And he continued,
quote, "The Communist Party believes
China and the US are locked in a great
struggle for mastery. In this worldview,
it isn't enough for China to rise. The
US must fall." End quote. One
interesting thing to note regarding this
story is that the title of this opinion
piece was changed and softened from
Jensen Juan is wrong about China to why
the China doves are wrong. That change
was made after the announcement of the
new relationship between Palanteer and
Nvidia from what we could find. Whatever
the reason, we don't think it's a good
look to softly and retroactively modify
this post partnership. Palanteer isn't a
company that's afraid to be
confrontational or controversial. It's
posted advertisements across college
campuses that read, quote, "A moment of
reckoning has arrived for the West. Our
culture has fallen into shallow
consumerism while abandoning national
purpose." On the factory floor, in the
operating room, across the battlefield,
we build to dominate end quote. CEO Alex
Karp has even referred to themselves as
quote heretics in a letter sent to
shareholders. So, he's a man who clearly
has a need to feel tough whenever he
talks at least. And this takes us to our
next topic, which [music] is Palanteer's
leadership. Peter Teal is credited with
the concept and with the seed funding
for this company. For those unfamiliar
with the billionaire venture capitalist,
Teal is one of the co-founders of
PayPal, making him a member of the
PayPal mafia, as it's called, which
represents a group of investors who have
successfully invested in a variety of
Silicon Valley startups. Teal is
sometimes considered the dawn of the
group, and is extremely wellconed in the
industry, as shown in this chart by
Dorothy Gamble. He's gone on record to
say some controversial stuff like quote,
"I no longer believe that freedom and
democracy are compatible." End quote.
These really aren't the words you want
to hear from the creator of a company
that facilitates mass surveillance,
seeing as he's saying freedom's not
compatible with democracy, so you're
just not going to have it. I guess also
death. They they facilitate that, too.
Speaking of death, he also famously
paused for an extremely awkward and
uncomfortable amount of time in this interview.
interview.
>> You would prefer the human race to
endure, right? Uh,
Uh,
>> you're hesitant.
>> Well, I Yes.
>> I don't know. I I would
>> I would um
>> This is a long hesitation. So many longesitation.
