Alex Karp continue to drag the AI labs — while defending one of their leaders, Dario Amodei.

The Palantir CEO spent July outlining his thesis for “sovereign AI.” Firms should want to keep their data, he said; they shouldn’t fork it over to a third-party like OpenAI or Anthropic. (You might remember that testy CNBC interview.)

In an all-hands meeting, Karp continued to lay out his theory — and rip into his AI competitors. He called the companies “wildly unlikable.”

“They are actually unwilling to respond to any questions about: How do you build the models without ripping off someone’s IP, migrating your alpha to your model, and then competing…