Palantir CEO says Dario Amodei is not the 'caricature' that Americans might believe him to be

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said that AI companies were "wildly unlikable." John Lamparski/Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp said that AI tokens created a "weird kind of slop" that benefited unproductive people. AI companies need forward-deployed engineers "that aren't just masturbating and selling tokens," Karp said in an all-hands. Karp defended Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. "He's not the caricature that many people, most Americans, believe," he said. 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."