Palantir's Al Targeting System Running the Iran War

In the first 12 hours of the Iran war, the US struck nearly 900 targets. Over 13,000 in 38 days. The software making that possible is called Maven Smart System — and almost every layer of it maps to capabilities you can build with off-the-shelf tools. I take it apart end-to-end: the OODA loop it was built to compress, the sensor stack feeding it, the Anthropic standoff over Claude inside the classified system, and the speed-accuracy tradeoff nobody in the Pentagon wants to answer for. Then I show you the civilian roadmap I'm building. Chapters: 0:00 What the Heck Does Palantir Actually Do? 1:08 The OODA Loop, Compressed 1:35 How the Pentagon Picked Targets in Microsoft Office 2:11 Inside the Maven Smart System Demo 4:21 Claude Is Inside Maven (And Anthropic Is Pushing Back) 5:32 What Maven Can Actually See 8:38 Geolocating Shadow Fleets via Candy Crush 10:00 Orient, Decide, Act at War: Epic Fury & Kharg Island 10:53 The Speed–Accuracy Tradeoff 12:06 The Same Tech Runs the NHS, WFP, and Airbus 12:48 Pulling Maven Apart — How to Build the Civilian Version 14:35 God's Eye View + Argus: The Roadmap 15:43 Close Relavent Links: 🔗 Map the World Substack — full Maven deep-dive: https://spatialintelligence.ai 🔗 Palantir Maven Smart System demo (chief AI officer walkthrough): https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/203... 🔗 Anduril Lattice: https://www.anduril.com/lattice/ 🔗 Vantor Raptor — GPS-denied UAV navigation: https://vantor.com/product/mission-so... 🔗 ICEYE (SAR satellites): https://www.iceye.com/ 🔗 Capella Space (SAR satellites): https://www.capellaspace.com/ 🔗 Planet Labs (commercial Earth imaging): https://www.planet.com/ 🔗 Spire (RF / dark-vessel detection): https://spire.com/ 🔗 Meta Segment Anything: https://ai.meta.com/research/sam3/ -- Subscribe for more in-depth AI & creative tech videos! 👉 ‪@bilawalsidhu‬ Join My Newsletter: https://spatialintelligence.ai Connect with me on X/Twitter here: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu Everywhere else here: https://bilawal.ai Business inquiries: [email protected] Bio: Bilawal Sidhu is a creator, engineer, and product builder obsessed with blending reality and imagination using art and science. Bilawal is the technology curator for TED Talks, and a venture scout for Andreessen Horowitz. With more than a decade of experience in the tech industry, he spent six years as a product manager at Google, where he worked on spatial computing and 3D maps. His work has been featured in major publications including Bloomberg, Forbes, BBC, CNBC, and Fortune, among others. Bilawal’s journey into computer graphics began at 11, when he fell in love with seamlessly blending 3D into real life footage. Since then, he's captivated over 1.5M subscribers, garnering more than 500M+ views across his platforms. Driven by a mission to empower the next generation of artists and entrepreneurs, Bilawal openly shares AI-assisted workflows and industry insights on social media. When he’s not working, you can find Bilawal expanding his collection of electric guitars. TED: https://www.ted.com/speakers/bilawal_...