Two tech businesses that were independently named after objects from The Lord of the Rings have formed a partnership – or should that be a fellowship?, analytics outfit Palantir and autonomous systems vendor Anduril have formed"a new consortium to ensure that the US government leads the world in artificial intelligence" and"deliver the technological infrastructure, from the edge to the enterprise, that can enable our government and industry partners to transform America's...
"Anduril" was the name given to the re-forged sword"Narsil," which was broken in battle before Isildur took up its shards and used them to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron – setting in train the events eventually chronicled in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.fancies the founders of Anduril – the business – knew that when they chose the name, given its focus on US national security.
"Exabytes of defense data, indispensable for AI training and inferencing, are currently evaporating. What should be America's ultimate asymmetric advantage over our adversaries is instead our biggest lost opportunity," the partners state in their announcement.