Palantir Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp hasn't been shy about touting the company's strong performance based on the Rule of 40, noting that it had a Rule of 40 score of 94 in its second-quarter report. That was made up of 48% revenue growth and 46% adjusted operating margin.

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Palantir's growth continues to be led by U.S. commercial customers adopting its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). The company once again credited AIP's ontology, saying it is "pure understanding," and that without it, large language models (LLMs) cannot actually work in the real world