Tokenomics - the worldview according to Palantir as CEO Alex Karp lays into OpenAI and Anthropic's "effing insane" business models

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As the debate around tokenomics rumbles on, in a no holds barred diatribe, Palantir CEO Alex Karp has laid into the “effing insane” business model of the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI, which he accuses of ripping off American enterprises - and they’re mad as hell and not about to take it anymore.

In a televised interview with CNBC, intended to publicise a new tie-up around sovereign AI capabilities in partnership with NVIDIA, Karp said:

Our clients just say they're unhappy with the frontier labs...I'm telling you, in this country every single enterprise I deal with, these people are livid. They're like, 'I am paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business, and they're creating a wealth tax that does not help the poor, it just punishes'. Every single person is going to be paying...

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