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Oracle, Palantir ink partnership to provide cloud and AI solutions

By TechTaffy Desk

Oracle and Palantir have announced a partnership to sell cloud and AI solutions to government and commercial industries.

The partnership aims to combine Oracle’s cloud and AI infrastructure with Palantir’s AI and decision acceleration platforms. As part of the agreement, Palantir will move its Foundry workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and make its Gotham and AI Platforms deployable across Oracle’s distributed cloud, including public cloud regions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Regions, Oracle Alloy, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, Oracle Government Cloud, Oracle Roving Edge, and Oracle’s air-gapped regions for defense and intelligence customers.

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