<div id="readability-page-1"><div id="ArticleBody-InlineImage-108319546"><div><div><p>Alex Karp, Co-founder and CEO of Palantir, speaking with CNBC in New York, on June 10th, 2026.</p><p>CNBC</p></div></div></div><div><p><span id="RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1">Palantir<span><span id="-WatchlistDropdown"></span></span></span> CEO Alex Karp said the artificial intelligence software company's enterprise customers are &#34;unhappy&#34; with how the frontier labs are operating. </p><p>&#34;It's not just the man and woman on the street that is unhappy with the frontier labs, it's in private every single enterprise we deal with,&#34; he told CNBC's Sara Eisen on Wednesday. </p><p>Many customers, he said, believe these companies don't understand their businesses and only care about tokenmaxxing, or burning through AI tokens to signal productivity. </p><p>&#34;Most of the things they talk about in public are running on Palantir,&#34; he said of Anthropic.</p><p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.</strong></p></div><div><p>Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.</p></div></div>

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<p>Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated that enterprise customers are unhappy with frontier AI labs, believing these companies lack understanding of their businesses and engage in 'tokenmaxxing' to signal productivity. He noted that much of the public discourse from labs like Anthropic actually runs on Palantir's infrastructure.</p>

- Palantir CEO Alex Karp expressed dissatisfaction among enterprise customers regarding the operations of frontier labs during a CNBC interview on June 10th, 2026.  
- He noted that clients feel these companies fail to understand their needs, focusing instead on superficial productivity signals through AI tokens.  
- Karp highlighted that much of the public discourse by these firms is reliant on Palantir's technology.

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Palantir's Karp says businesses are 'unhappy' with the frontier AI labs