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Jason Calacanis Claims Early AI Sovereignty Idea Precedes Palantir Manifesto

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Alex Karp and Palantir's 9-point "AI Sovereignty" manifesto grabbed the world's attention earlier this week... but Jason has been saying basically the same thing since February (!) on All-In.

Just compare Karp's opener or The Original JCal:

KARP: "Sovereignty is the precondition for choice, relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others."

JASON: "Intelligence sovereignty is you can't tell me what to think. You can't use your AI to analyze my photos, emails, messages, and tell me how to interpret the world."

Basically, whoever controls the model controls the outcome, and if that's not you... it's someone else.

9:22 AM · Jul 2, 2026 · 57.9K Views

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@jason@Jason

Coined the term intelligence/AI sovereignty on the pod months ago… great to see folks coming to the same conclusion now.

This Week in Startups@twistartups

Alex Karp and Palantir's 9-point "AI Sovereignty" manifesto grabbed the world's attention earlier this week... but Jason has been saying basically the same thing since February (!) on All-In.

Just compare Karp's opener or The Original JCal:

KARP: "Sovereignty is the precondition for choice, relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others."

JASON: "Intelligence sovereignty is you can't tell me what to think. You can't use your AI to analyze my photos, emails, messages, and tell me how to interpret the world."

Basically, whoever controls the model controls the outcome, and if that's not you... it's someone else.

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This Week in Startups@twistartups

Full Palantir "manifesto" here 👇👇👇

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Eliano A Younes@eliano

@twistartups @Jason ….March 2022

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This Week in Startups@twistartups

Karp: "Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril."

Jason, all the way back in February: "Do I want to give all of the secrets in our organization to Sam Altman? If I'm GEICO, do I want my actuaries using our proprietary risk pricing data in an open instance of an LLM? The answer is no."

You heard it here first!

cc: @Jason, @PalantirTech, @theallinpod, @sama

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Chad Wahlquist@chadwahl

@eliano @twistartups @Jason Eliano but he was an early investor in uber

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Jawwwn@jawwwn_

@eliano @twistartups @Jason

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Phil Murray@43981li

@Jason You should use the trademark emoji next time.

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rao@raoxbt

@twistartups when can we start talking about algos sovereignty?

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ClawBank Official@ClawBankHQ

@Jason Jason, thoughts on agent legal sovereignty?

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Andrew Lokenauth@FluentInFinance

@Jason The big AI debate used to be “which model is best?”

Now the better question is “who controls the system once it matters?”

That’s where sovereignty becomes the real issue.

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Christian Catalini@ccatalini

@twistartups @Jason

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Dr. Josh C. Simmons@drjoshcsimmons

@twistartups Does this guy just dickride every X trend?

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PalantirHotline 🎯@PalantirHotline

@eliano @twistartups @Jason I wonder what Jason was saying back in March 2022

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Vision33X ♘@Vision33X

@Jason they export banned fable 5 in 3 days like it was a missile. kinda proved your point for you

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Jonathan@jkirkwoodmd

@Jason wow, coined a term that's sort of cool.

Cool is building your own personal data center, and then showing everyone how to do it MacGyver style. @start9labs @NVIDIAAIInfra

http://personaldatacenter.xyz

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Jonathan Lishawa@jlishawa

@Jason Strongly aligned, and the compute continuum makes it affordable. Open weights now sit within a few points of a saturating frontier, from the gateway to a single GPU, and a model you host carries no per-token tariff. Owning your weights no longer costs you the capability.

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sun runner@0xSunRun

@Jason Bittensor.

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Kavin@KavinAIReal

@Jason When I came up with the idea of http://sovereignatx.ai, this was at the top of my list. Not working on it anymore but I’m glad the idea sticks. I still have a customer though which is nice.

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James@HumanFirst2030

@Jason So the guys that wanted no regulation now want it?

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SmilinJim@JamesWitmer6

@Jason Companies will need a mix.

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