Palantir CEO Alex Karp said that AI leaders were too future-forward.
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Alex Karp thinks Silicon Valley's AI companies and their leaders are lacking one key trait: self-awareness.The CEO of Palantir has an interesting position in the AI boom. Labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are both partners and competitors. In an interview with CNBC, Karp took some jabs at the those companies and their San Francisco-based work culture."They don't understand how unlikeable they are," Karp said. "I told them this. I probably shouldn't have."The AI-pilled are also too future-forward, said Karp, who has criticized the San Francisco tech scene before. The AI labs believe that they "don't have to solve your problem today," because it will be solved tomorrow, he said. "It's largely religious."Karp also criticized the AI companies' products. He said that they "don't actually work the way" customers expect, and that they're "very expensive."Sentiment about AI might differ outside San Francisco, he added.Several tech companies have been embracing the forward-deployed model for AI, including OpenAI and Google. That's a model that Palantir popularized — and Karp said the AI giants have so far done a bad job of it.
