C3.AI, founded by former Oracle Corp. executive Tom Siebel, will bid for a contract to revamp the IT systems of the UK’s National Health Service, challenging an offer from Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies Inc., the Telegraph reported, without saying where it get the information.
(Bloomberg) — C3.AI, founded by former Oracle Corp. executive Tom Siebel, will bid for a contract to revamp the IT systems of the UK’s National Health Service, challenging an offer from Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies Inc., the Telegraph reported, without saying where it get the information.
The two Silicon Valley billionaires are vying for a contract worth as much as £480 million ($579 million) to build a national data platform to manage the allocation of resources at the NHS.
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Palantir’s Foundry software was used in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic to track the take-up of vaccines and, more recently, manage the backlog of patients waiting for elective surgeries. But the company’s involvement with the NHS has drawn criticism from civil liberties groups, who say the company enjoys privileged access to contracts over rival firms.
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