ADD:

  • Video about real estate for Leon.
  • add 2.z Function-specific list of demos.. for example HN demos (not AI, ALPHA, SOV, etc).


This Enterprise section focuses on Palantir Foundry:

  • Foundry (see diagram below) is a modern enterprise platform for data integration, ontology, analytics, applications, AI assistance, and governance.
  • Foundry represents the logical culmination of ZiptieAI: (2) neural networks → (2b) models → (3) agents → (3b) workflows (and finally) → (3c) enterprise platforms.
  • Foundry takes a very practical no-nonsense approach to AI in the enterprise. Foundry was a market leader over 20 years ago (long before AI).
  • Palantir offers a generous Foundry free trial.
  • Foundry’s built-in AI assistant (FDE) makes hands-on self-study practical.

Foundry enterprise platform workflow
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TOC:

  • 1 Core Foundry Enterprise AI Concepts
  • 1b Foundry free tier sign up
  • 2 Foundry Tutorial concepts/projects (ZAI-modified PAL demos and ZAI/FDE original demos)
  • 3 Project/doc sources (PAL and ZAI)


1 Core Foundry Enterprise AI Concepts

NOTE: See (below) section “2 Tutorial projects” subsection “2.2x CONCEPTS (DEEP DIVE): ZAI demos” for lower level concepts (workflows, data protection, AIP, and automation).

  • SUMMARY (TL;DR): Why has Palantir been so successful recently?
  • C1 (1-2) AI can be a blessing or a curse for your enterprise. Foundry makes it much more of a blessing.
  • C2 (3-5) What exactly are AI, SOVereignty, and ALPHA?
  • C3 (7-8) Know the difference between AI scammers and your AI allies (a Frontier AI LLM provider can be both).
  • C4 (9) Historical overview of SOV/ALPHA. Before LLMs and (now) with LLMs for the enterprise and (future?) the PC.

Palantir provides proven engineering (the crystal ball is just a metaphor, marketing genius); those selling AGI are selling a fantasy that can cause big problems in an enterprise.
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Alex Karp sounding the alarm about sovereignty and ALPHA in the enterprise.
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1b Foundry free tier sign up

If you cant get a trial version of PAL running, then there’s no reason to read further. You will not understand PAL by just reading about it.

  • I did not record how I signed up, and its not a process I can repeat. But I can tell you the following:
    • You must be in a country that PAL supports (thats only a few countries).
    • You can NOT use a VPN.
    • You must have a passport or some picture ID of good enough quality for facial recognition verification. My passport is almost 10 years old, but it still worked.
    • You need a camera on your PC to take a pic of yourself. PAL will compare your ID and the pic.
    • I think you need a mobile phone number (and email).
  • It was a fairly long process, but very professionally done (I was impressed).

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2 Foundry Tutorial concepts/projects

This section contains a deep dive into concepts and 3 Foundry tutorial projects

  • 2.2x CONCEPTS (DEEP DIVE): ZAI demos
  • 2.2a ZAI start-to-finish demo project (TODO)
  • 2.2b ZAI versions of the core ~8 Foundry getting started demos
  • 2.2zzz TARGET APP DEMOS (TODO). These will be focusing on target apps, for example “Haystack Needle” demos. Higher level docs, assuming you know the basics.
  • 2.3 PAL Examples (installable). FULL-FEATURED BUSINESS APP (WITH INSTALLER).


2.2x CONCEPTS (DEEP DIVE): ZAI demos

  • the core getting started demos did not seem to focus on what I gradually (with more and more hands-on experience) began to recognize as the core concepts of PAL demos.
  • use those ~8 demos as a basic course in hands-on learning of the main concepts (as I see them) (See 2.2b section below)
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2.2a ZAI start-to-finish demo project (TODO).

The idea is to

  • create a long demo with many phases that stays laser-focued on demo’ing the core Foundry concepts (such as “alpha”; not on overly complicated “realistic” demos of specific application markets) while
  • learning to navigate the UI and the terminology (The most challenging aspect of working with Foundry)


2.2b ZAI versions of the core ~8 Foundry getting started demos.

This is currently (26.0914) the Main focus of (1) ZAI “3c Enterprise” and (2) ZAI in general.**

  • NOTE: see 2.2x CONCEPTS (DEEP DIVE): ZAI demos above
  • ~8 demos as a basic course in hands-on learning of the main concepts (as I see them).
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  • Main diagram for demo D3 (Core workflow + Automation + AI external)
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2.2zzz TARGET APP DEMOS (TODO).

These will be focusing on target apps, for example “Haystack Needle” demos. Higher level docs, assuming you know the basics.


2.3 PAL Examples (installable).

FULL-FEATURED BUSINESS APP (WITH INSTALLER). I originally planned to focus on examples These are complete demos that auto-install. The big advantage is that you start out with a (usually) working version that you can modify piece by piece. Examples are complete (usually more complicated) and have an installer that allows you to start with a (usually) working version that you can modify. ZAI adds a few extra steps:

  • Install a second (experimental) example
  • Modify that example at your own pace


3 Project/Doc sources

  • 3.1 ZAI doc sources (docx, gdrive, this site, etc)
  • 3.2 PAL project/doc sources


3.1 ZAI doc sources (docx, gdrive, this site, etc)


3.2 PAL project/doc sources

  • See the chat with FDE about demo sources.
  • palantir.com/docs/foundry. Has a lot of great content. But its probably not where you want to initially start. Note: The most interesting thing on this page for me was the diagram below (I added numbering that matches the workflow diagram in 1.2 above).
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  • Several Youtube sites. The sites I viewed were quite good, but not really suited for an absolute beginner. Documents are the best for absolute beginners (and they tend to be more up-to-date and can serve as the template for your own docs).
  • build.palantir.com has links to examples/demos organized by type: AI Starter Pack, Document Suite, Reference Implementation, etc.
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  • learn.palantir.com has links to examples/demo organized by role: Data Engineer, App Dev, etc.
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  • [my-org].palantirfoundry.com/workspace/marketplace is a Foundry internal app for finding examples/demos organized by 9 “stores”.
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