Palantir CEO Karp: closed-model token discounts are about absorbing your proprietary knowledge
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-18
Palantir CEO Alex Karp argued on CNBC for open-weight models on data-sovereignty grounds: closed models absorb a company's proprietary knowledge into someone else's system, while open-weight models keep knowledge, customization, and control inside the company's own environment.
He also made a pointed claim about pricing: "When you use a closed model and you pay for tokens, the reason the tokens are discounted is not so they can grow the market. They're discounted so that..." — implying discounts are a trade for enterprise knowledge. Full remarks in the linked video.
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