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Most Palantir installations don't automatically generate or analyze the graphs. It's installed as essentially a very large, hand curated, semantic graph store and retrieval system with a nice client interface. Most of the work done with Palantir is manual.

If you watch some demos on their site you'll see that the workflow is almost entirely manual save for the moments when they retrieve sections of the semantic graph from the datastore.

Also notice that they never talk about the excruciatingly long process of how that data got jammed into the system. Imagine the target goal for an entire day's work for one person is to import 10 news articles into the system and you'll understand why they aren't doing the kinds of things Schneider was talking about (even if their brilliant marketing and sales departments sell it otherwise).

edit: word on the street is that they are still cashflow negative which is very worrisome considering all the fundraising they've been doing + they've almost saturated the government market




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