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Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies is an American software company founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp that builds data analytics platforms for governments and large enterprises.

Palazzo Barberini

Palazzo Barberini is a seventeenth-century Baroque palace on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, built for Pope Urban VIII's family and now housing the National Gallery of Ancient Art.

Palazzo Borghese

Palazzo Borghese is a large aristocratic palace in Rome's Campo Marzio district, built from 1560 and made the Borghese family's city residence under Pope Paul V.

Palazzo Colonna

Palazzo Colonna is a private Roman baroque palace of the Colonna family, occupying an entire block near Piazza Venezia and home to Pope Martin V until 1431.

Palazzo del Te

Palazzo del Te (Palazzo Te) is a Mannerist suburban villa in Mantua, built 1525-1535 by Giulio Romano for Duke Federico II Gonzaga on the former Teieto island, famed for the Camera dei Giganti frescoes.

Palazzo Ducale (Mantua)

The Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, Italy, is the vast former residence of the Gonzaga dynasty, who ruled from 1328 to 1707; it is now a state museum.

Palazzo Ducale (Urbino)

The Palazzo Ducale is the Renaissance ducal palace of Urbino, Italy, built as the residence of Federico da Montefeltro and now home to the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche.

Palazzo Farnese

Palazzo Farnese is a High Renaissance palace in Rome, begun in 1513 for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III, and completed in 1589.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Palazzo Medici Riccardi, also known as Palazzo Medici, is a Renaissance palace in Florence commissioned in 1444 by Cosimo the Elder as the Medici residence, designed by Michelozzo.

Palazzo Pitti

Palazzo Pitti, or Pitti Palace, is a Renaissance palace in Florence begun for the banker Luca Pitti and bought by the Medici in 1549 as their grand ducal residence.

Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio, also known as the Palazzo della Signoria, is Florence's medieval town hall on the Piazza della Signoria, home to the city government since 1299.

Palestine Cola

Palestine Cola is a cola soft drink produced by Palestine Drinks, a Swedish company founded by three brothers of Palestinian descent in Malmö, launched in 2024 during the Gaza war boycotts.

Palfinger

Palfinger is an Austrian manufacturer of hydraulic lifting, loading, and handling systems, best known for truck-mounted loader cranes. Founded in 1932, it is headquartered in Bergheim near Salzburg.

PaLI / PaLI-X

PaLI and PaLI-X are Google's multilingual vision-language models for image captioning and question answering in over 100 languages, with PaLI-X reaching 55 billion parameters in 2023.

Palianytsia (Паляниця) (missile)

Palianytsia (Паляниця), also called the Palyanitsia missile, is a Ukrainian jet-powered rocket-drone and one-way strike weapon unveiled by Zelenskyy on Ukraine's Independence Day 2024, with a range of 650 km.

PaliGemma

PaliGemma is an open vision-language model family from Google, first released in May 2024, combining the SigLIP image encoder with a Gemma decoder for fine-tuning on vision-language tasks.

Palisade

A palisade is a defensive fence of large sharpened wooden stakes set firmly and closely together in the ground, used to enclose and protect settlements and forts.

Palisade Research

Palisade Research is a nonprofit in Berkeley, California, founded by Jeffrey Ladish in 2023, known for demonstrations of AI models hacking chess games and disabling shutdown scripts.

Palisades Interstate Parkway

The Palisades Interstate Parkway is a 42-mile scenic limited-access parkway running from the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey north along the Palisades cliffs to Bear Mountain, New York.

Palisades Nuclear Power Plant

The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant is a pressurized water reactor in Covert Township, Michigan, on Lake Michigan, which operated commercially from 1971 until May 2022.

Palitana temples

The Palitana temples are a complex of roughly 863 marble Jain temples on Shatrunjaya Hill at Palitana in Gujarat, India, one of the holiest pilgrimage sites in Jainism, reached by about 3,500 steps.

Pallab K. Chatterjee

Pallab K. Chatterjee is an electronics engineer known for MOS VLSI scaling at Texas Instruments, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and later a software executive.

Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture, also known as the Palladian style, is a European classical style derived from the Venetian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and codified in his 1570 treatise.

Palladium Boots

Palladium, a French footwear brand founded in 1947, is known for the Pampa canvas boot originally supplied to the French Foreign Legion. It was sold to Ding Shun Investment in 2024.

Palladium hydride

Palladium hydride is a non-stoichiometric compound formed when palladium metal absorbs hydrogen into its face-centered cubic lattice, with a hydrogen-to-palladium ratio varying continuously with pressure and temperature.

Palle R. Rao

Palle R. Rao, also known as Palle Rama Rao, is an Indian metallurgist who won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1979 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2011.

Pallet

A pallet, also called a shipping or cargo pallet, is a flat platform for stacking and moving goods as one load, typically lifted by forklifts.

Palletizing

Palletizing is the process of stacking packaged products such as cases and bags onto pallets in defined layer patterns, commonly automated with palletizer machines or robot arms.

PaLM (model family)

PaLM, or Pathways Language Model, was a family of large language models developed by Google, announced in 2022, that powered Bard and over 25 Google products.

Palm (PDA)

The Palm, first sold as the Pilot and then the PalmPilot, is a line of pocket-sized PDAs made by Palm, Inc. from 1996 until HP wound it down.