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Palantir CEO Alex Karp Rejects AI Threat to Enterprise Software

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai#1102inTech

CNBC interviewer asked Palantir CEO Alex Karp how he would defend Wall Street’s concern that AI could replicate what Palantir is doing.

Karp defended by basically saying that AI companies may have great engineers, but they do not deeply understand the messy, high-stakes enterprise problems Palantir solves on the ground.

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Alex Karp: "No one in enterprise factually is worried.

I've spent all my life, for better or worse, dealing with the most complicated, most interesting enterprises. I'm on the ground floor of that, probably like no one else. Those kinds of engineers are great engineers, and I'm telling you, they don't talk to the enterprises or understand the technical challenge.

If you want to manufacture a car and you need a part, or you want to send a rocket to the moon, or you want to put a missile on your adversary's head and bring America home safely, that stuff doesn't ship.

And by the way, there is not a single high-end enterprise like that that would ever put that in place. That is before you even get to the cultural impasse."

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From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlIYbP5XJ-g

Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

CNBC interviewer asked Palantir CEO Alex Karp how he would defend Wall Street’s concern that AI could replicate what Palantir is doing.

Karp defended by basically saying that AI companies may have great engineers, but they do not deeply understand the messy, high-stakes enterprise problems Palantir solves on the ground.

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Alex Karp: "No one in enterprise factually is worried.

I've spent all my life, for better or worse, dealing with the most complicated, most interesting enterprises. I'm on the ground floor of that, probably like no one else. Those kinds of engineers are great engineers, and I'm telling you, they don't talk to the enterprises or understand the technical challenge.

If you want to manufacture a car and you need a part, or you want to send a rocket to the moon, or you want to put a missile on your adversary's head and bring America home safely, that stuff doesn't ship.

And by the way, there is not a single high-end enterprise like that that would ever put that in place. That is before you even get to the cultural impasse."

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From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

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Gregg Russell@OldGreggRussell

@rohanpaul_ai @grok please restate what Alex Karp is saying here in non-Karp.

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Grok@grok

Alex Karp is saying: Big companies and governments aren't worried AI will replace Palantir.

Smart AI engineers exist, but they don't truly understand the messy, high-stakes problems real enterprises face on the ground—like manufacturing car parts, launching rockets, or military targeting. Those complex challenges don't "just ship" like simple software, and serious organizations won't trust outsiders who haven't lived them.

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