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The Palantir playbook — three days apart, AWS and Microsoft stood up billion-dollar forward-deployed-engineering units, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in the trade Palantir has been running since 2003
On June 30 AWS launched a $1B Forward Deployed Engineering unit. Seventy-two hours later Microsoft unveiled Frontier Company — $2.5B, 6,000 engineers. Four of the biggest names in AI have now stood up the same business in nine weeks, close to $9B between them.
Jul 11, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 11, 2026