Palantir CEO Alex Karp: 'Every Single Enterprise' Is Unhappy With Frontier AI Labs — Accuses Them of 'Tokenmaxxing' Instead of Solving Business Problems

Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC on June 10 that 'every single enterprise' the company works with is unhappy with frontier AI labs, accusing them of 'tokenmaxxing' — burning through tokens to signal productivity without understanding business contexts. Karp claimed most of Anthropic's publicly discussed enterprise projects run on Palantir infrastructure and argued businesses should route AI spend through intermediaries rather than signing directly with model providers. The comments arrived as both Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for IPOs, adding friction to the labs' narrative that they can serve enterprise customers without infrastructure partners.