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New deal, same Palantir playbook
Palantir is linking up with Cleveland-Cliffs to push AI into steelmaking, because apparently even blast furnaces need a software glow-up now. It’s the kind of partnership that sounds a little sci-fi, a little industrial, and very on-brand for a company that loves turning “data” into “mission-critical.”
Why investors should care
This is not just a cute corporate friendship. For Palantir, every new partnership like this is a chance to show that its platform can live outside the usual defense-and-government lane and actually help a giant industrial company make better decisions, faster.
If the partnership works, it gives Palantir another case study to wave around when the next buyer asks: “Okay, but what does this do for my business?” And for Cleveland-Cliffs, the bet is simple: use AI to squeeze more efficiency out of a brutal, old-school industry where tiny improvements can mean real money.
Big picture
Palantir has been trying to sell the market on a bigger story: not just software, but software that can sit inside the messy guts of actual businesses and help them run smarter. Deals like this are the receipts. They don’t guarantee a moonshot, but they do make the growth narrative a lot less abstract.