GoKawiilPalantir CEO Alex Karp doubled down on his criticism of the frontier artificial intelligence labs on Monday, arguing that enterprises shouldn't be forced to give up their intellectual property to work with model makers.
"We have people trying to drug addict us to a future they [frontier AI models] believe they control," Karp said in an exclusive interview with CNBC. "Now, I've spent a lot of time with Dario [Amodei] and the Anthropic crew. They want to tell you we have to march into a future where we own nothing, where our businesses aren't profitable, where none of us have jobs, and where our adversaries win."
Instead, Karp said, enterprises should control their own models and work with companies like Palantir that offer an application layer that sits on top of a company's stack, thereby allowing the business to keep the data in-house.
Anthropic and OpenAI have said over the last month that customer data is secure and isn't used to train their models. OpenAI went as far as to say businesses must explicitly opt in if they want their data used for model improvement.
Karp isn't buying it.
"Every enterprise we interact with, and that includes some of the biggest and most important government enterprises in the world, is saying, 'Why would we tokenmaxx [and] pay people for something that's not useful and then not control the means that allow us to advance our business while keeping the value of the business inside?" Karp said.
CNBC has reached out to Anthropic and OpenAI for comment.
Known for being outspoken and unapologetically brash, Karp was the first executive to take aim at OpenAI and Anthropic publicly in early July, blasting their token structure in viral comments on CNBC. His comments ignited a fiery debate, with many Silicon Valley and political leaders coming out in support.
"All-In" podcast co-host and tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya told "Squawk Box" in July that Karp "deserves a medal."