# Palantir Edge AI **Entity class:** Disconnected and tactical artificial-intelligence capability **Architecture:** [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition **Palantir Edge AI** brings models, data processing, and operational applications to constrained edge hardware where connectivity to a central cloud is limited, intermittent, or denied. ## Modern Defense and Cybersecurity Role Modern war requires decisions aboard vehicles, aircraft, ships, and forward positions that cannot wait for a round trip to a hyperscale data center. Edge AI makes local sensing, inference, and action part of the same governed software architecture as headquarters systems. ## Chronological Proximity Palantir described Edge AI in the early 2020s alongside MetaConstellation, Gaia, and Cosmos as products used in near-peer operational environments. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Palantir Apollo|Apollo]] distributes and maintains edge software; [[wiki/Palantir Ontology|the Ontology]] supplies mission context; [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence Platform|AIP]] connects models and operators to governed actions. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] ## Sources / Provenance - [Primary documentation](https://investors.palantir.com/files/Accompanying%20Remarks%20-%202021%20Financial%20Results.pdf)