Future maker
Alex Karp
Co-founder & CEO, Palantir
Argues enterprises must own their models and data rather than hand them to the frontier labs.
We track: Shareholder letters, earnings calls, CNBC interviews
What they’re saying about the future
Exact quotes, newest first, each dated and linked to the source. Last reviewed 22 Oct 2026.
“We have people trying to drug addict us to a future they believe they control.”
“Our customers have declined to become vassal states of the language labs. And the market is now shifting dramatically underfoot.”
“There are Marxist overtones and undertones to our business. Others, including many of those building large language models, intend, knowingly or otherwise, to capture the means of production of their purported partners.”
“What aligns me with Nvidia, and I think is what the technical customers want, which is control over their compute, their models, their data stack and their alpha. They want to know they own the means of production. It’s not being transferred to someone else.”
“We believe it is not hyperbolic to say that nearly all AI workflows that actually create value—especially on the battlefield—are built on Palantir.”
Photo: UK Government (AI Safety Summit, 1 Nov 2023), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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