Palantir’s New Cohort to Drive Manufacturing Innovations at ‘Warp Speed’

Palantir, the US-based data analytics firm, has announced a new cohort of companies that will use its tool Warp Speed to reindustrialise the United States’ manufacturing and production capabilities. Companies including Anduril Industries, L3Harris, Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA), and Shield AI are part of the cohort. 

Warp Speed is Palantir’s manufacturing operating system that provides a unified platform for companies to access multiple production tools. Warp Speed is focused on adapting towards companies’ production and business processes rather than the other way around. 

The platform combines several tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), product lifecycle management (PLM), and programmable logic controllers (PLC). This includes products from notable companies such as Siemens, SAP, Oracle and SolidWorks.

“The inaugural cohort is already using the software to gain an advantage in dynamic production scheduling, engineering change management, automated visual inspection for quality, and more,” read the announcement. 

One of the member companies in the cohort, Anduril, was able to observe a 200-fold efficiency gain in dealing with supply shortages. A few days ago, Anduril announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring AI technologies to the U.S. national defence and security interests. 

Leaders from other companies followed suit with a similar sentiment. “Warp Speed is enabling us to rapidly transform our manufacturing operation in Nevada and accelerate the ramp-up of our new factory in De Soto, Kansas,” said Allan Swan, President of PENA. 

In another instance, Shield AI says they are able to handle a ‘record demand’ for V-BAT, their flagship unmanned aerial system, through Warp Speed OS. “Warp Speed will help our different functions identify chokepoints and stay in lock step,” said Ryan Tseng, CEO and founder of Shield AI.

Last Month, Palantir also announced a partnership with AWS and Anthropic to provide US intelligence and defence agencies with Claude 3 and 3.5 models. 

“Our partnership with Anthropic and AWS provides US defence and intelligence communities the toolchain they need to harness and deploy AI models securely, bringing the next generation of decision advantage to their most critical missions,” said Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir.