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More from Tech<\/p>\nPalantir CEO Alex Karp has renewed his criticism of frontier AI labs, arguing that businesses risk becoming financially and strategically dependent on companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. He says enterprises should retain control over their data, intellectual property and the value generated by AI systems. <\/p>\n
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has accused leading AI companies of encouraging businesses to become increasingly dependent on their models and computing infrastructure, describing the trend as an attempt to \u201cdrug addict\u201d enterprises to a future controlled by frontier AI labs.<\/p>\n
Speaking to CNBC, Karp argued that companies adopting AI at scale could end up spending heavily on models and compute while losing control over the technology and economic value generated from their own operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have people trying to drug addict us to a future they believe they control,\u201d Karp said, referring to frontier AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/p>\n
The comments are part of a broader criticism Karp has repeatedly levelled at the commercial model of the AI industry. Rather than opposing AI adoption itself, the Palantir chief has questioned whether enterprises are getting sufficient value from the money they are spending on AI services.<\/p>\n
Karp questions the economics of enterprise AI<\/p>\n
Karp’s criticism centres partly on what he describes as excessive spending on AI tokens and compute. He said businesses are increasingly questioning why they should pay for large volumes of AI usage if the spending does not translate into measurable improvements or give them greater control over the technology.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhy would we tokenmaxx… pay people for something that’s not useful and then not control the means that allow us to advance our business while keeping the value of the business inside?\u201d Karp said.<\/p>\n
The term \u201ctokenmaxxing\u201d refers broadly to heavy use of AI models and compute, including through extensive prompting and autonomous agents, without a clear indication that additional usage is producing corresponding business benefits.<\/p>\n
Karp has also painted a stark picture of the future he believes some frontier AI companies are effectively promoting. He pointed to concerns that businesses could become less profitable, workers could lose jobs and competitors or adversaries could gain an advantage.<\/p>\n
He specifically mentioned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, saying he has spent significant time with Amodei and his team, while arguing that the industry’s direction could ultimately leave businesses with less control over their own operations.<\/p>\n
Palantir backs open AI models<\/p>\n
Karp’s position puts him at odds with parts of the broader AI industry, but it also reflects Palantir’s preference for giving customers greater control over AI systems. The company has backed open-weight models, which can allow organisations to run and adapt AI systems with fewer restrictions than relying entirely on closed commercial models.<\/p>\n
His concerns come despite assurances from major AI companies that enterprise data is protected. OpenAI and Anthropic have both said customer information is not used to train their models by default. OpenAI’s business policy also states that organisations must explicitly opt in for their data to be used for model improvement.<\/p>\n
Karp nevertheless remains sceptical about whether those assurances address the larger issue of technological dependence.<\/p>\n
The Palantir chief has criticised OpenAI and Anthropic before. In July, he described the AI industry’s business model as \u201ceffing insane\u201d during another CNBC appearance, taking aim at the token-based economics behind services such as ChatGPT and Claude.<\/p>\n
Palantir’s position has also extended into the national-security debate. Last month, the company joined Nvidia, Microsoft and other technology firms in signing an open letter arguing that open-weight AI models are important for national security.<\/p>\n
For Karp, the argument is therefore not simply about which AI model performs best. It is also about who controls the infrastructure, data and economic value created as companies increasingly integrate AI into their businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palantir CEO Alex Karp has renewed his criticism of frontier AI labs, arguing that businesses risk becoming financially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66946,10545,49254,53,523,47057,157,361],"class_list":["post-134805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai-dependence","tag-ai-economics","tag-alex-karp-ai-criticism","tag-anthropic","tag-enterprise-ai","tag-open-weight-models","tag-openai","tag-palantir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}