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Palantir Chief Executive Alex Karp has publicly turned on the pricing models underpinning OpenAI and Anthropic, declaring that "something has gone completely wrong" with the way those companies charge for AI.
Karp argues that skyrocketing token costs are now a structural problem, not a rounding error — one that is actively steering enterprise buyers toward cheaper alternatives.
The Commercial Case Against Tokenmaxxing Karp's central charge is that the token-consumption model, as practiced by the two dominant closed-model providers, has made cost management impossible for companies that want to run AI at any serious scale.
He singles out what he calls "tokenmaxxing" — the pattern of maximizing token usage — as a practice that has inverted the incentive structure for AI deployment.
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