Alex Karp’s crusade against frontier AI labs continues.
During Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call on Monday, the CEO and cofounder reiterated his view that leading AI labs could absorb enterprises’ data, intellectual property, and expertise into their models and ultimately use that to compete with their customers.
“They deserve to colonize your enterprise,” Karp said, characterizing what he believed was the labs’ attitude.
The CEO said that enterprise companies are participating in tokenmaxxing — or “token self-pleasuring” as Karp called it during the call — at the cost of handing over their data and expertise to outside AI providers.
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