Palantir's Karp Attacks Big A.I. Labs as Nvidia Tie-Up Targets Closed-Source Model Market
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 8
Palantir's Karp Attacks Big A.I. Labs as Nvidia Tie-Up Targets Closed-Source Model Market
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 8
Summary
CNBC gave Alex Karp a new platform to declare that the A.I. industry has "gone completely wrong," with Palantir's CEO calling closed-source models from OpenAI and Anthropic a dead end.
Karp argued those labs hoard value and exploit customers' data and intellectual property, while open-source or open-weight systems give companies, militaries and agencies more control through what Palantir calls "A.I. sovereignty."
Palantir had published that sovereignty manifesto a day earlier, and Karp used the appearance to promote a new Nvidia partnership aimed at building and selling rival products to frontier-lab offerings.
That pitch also serves Palantir's own interests as the company faces pressure abroad: France's intelligence service is cutting ties, and its NHS partnership in Britain appears at risk.