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Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that integrate large, messy data sets and put them to work for decision-making. Founded in 2003 in the shadow of PayPal's fraud-detection work, the company sells four flagship products - Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) - to governments, defense and intelligence agencies, and commercial enterprises in finance, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing. Led by co-founder and CEO Alex Karp, Palantir has grown from a controversial government contractor into a fast-growing public company riding demand for operational AI.
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational and the flagship of the Samsung Group, one of the world's largest technology companies. It designs and manufactures smartphones, TVs, home appliances, displays, and memory and logic semiconductors. Best known for its Galaxy mobile line, Samsung is also the world's largest memory-chip maker and a central supplier of components to the wider electronics industry - including rivals. The company operates around the mission 'Inspire the World, Create the Future.'