Palantir CEO Alex Karp to OpenAI and Anthropic: Don’t try to ‘drug addict’ us
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has escalated his criticism of frontier artificial intelligence labs, telling CNBC that enterprises should not be forced to surrender intellectual property work with model markers. “We have people trying to drug addict us to a future they believe they control,” Karp said, referring to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Karp believes that their vision of future leaves businesses unprofitable, jobless and vulnerable to adversaries. He also emphasised that enterprises must retain control of their own models and data, working with companies like Palantir and offer an application layer on top of existing infrastructure. He dismissed assurances from AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI that customer data is secure and not used for trading, saying enterprises see little value in ‘tokenmaxxing’ without control over their computer and data stack.
