Karp Slams AI Tokens, Bets on Open-Weight Models for Enterprises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized the token-based pricing used by OpenAI and Anthropic as overpriced and called for enterprises to own their data and compute, signaling a shift toward open-weight models and in-house tools; he noted Palantir’s expanded partnership with Nvidia to build government-focused AI models and argued that control over compute, models and the data stack is what customers want as AI costs rise and competition from China grows.