Palantir CEO Alex Karp says 'something has gone wrong' with how AI is sold

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7 points·king_zee··3 comments

Ya think so?

Besides what AI companies are doing in regards to the common man, he's mostly talking about enterprise and how companies like Anthropic are controlling Enterprise users data. Eventually this will change as most enterprises will always want control over model settings and compute.

While his criticism of OpenAI and Anthropic is likely to be true, it is intended to be a sales pitch for a new product of Palantir, "Sovereign AI OS", which is promoted under the slogan "The future of AI is on-prem."

This is claimed to be "a turnkey AI datacenter — from hardware procurement to application deployment".

Obviously, a product conceived for "on-prem AI" is the opposite of the cloud strategy of OpenAI and Anthropic, so there is no wonder that Alex Karp suddenly emerged as their biggest critic, who exposed that enterprises are tricked into "paying for tokens that create no value" and that the AI companies "are stealing" their customers data.

When billionaires quarrel, I assume that everything bad they say about each other is true, unlike what they say about themselves.

While my opinion about Palantir is very low, in this case I have to agree with how they promote their product, i.e. that the only way in which you can rely on AI for a business is to run an open-weights model on your own hardware.

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