From The New Stack, July 6:
Palantir's Alex Karp and Mistral's Arthur Mensch are making the same case from different angles: Don't let closed AI providers control your data and deployment.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBC’s Squawk Box last week to discuss a new partnership with Nvidia to deploy open-weight AI models in sovereign government environments. But viewers got a nearly 20-minute broadside against the entire frontier AI model industry, calling it “effing insane” and accusing companies like OpenAI and Anthropic of overcharging enterprises while harvesting their proprietary data.
Days later, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch made a strikingly similar case on LinkedIn, warning that closed AI providers are gaining “immense leverage” over enterprise customers as organizations connect proprietary workflows to hosted models. He suggests open-weight models, open data systems, and enterprises building their own training flywheels.
The two executives are approaching this from opposite ends of the market, yet their convergence on the same message within the same week underscores architectural control.
Two pitches, one argument
Karp runs a company that sells an application and ontology layer designed to sit between enterprises and the models. The Palantir-Nvidia deal pairs Nvidia’s open Nemotron models with Palantir’s Sovereign AI Operating System, built on AIP, Foundry, Ontology, and Apollo, enabling government agencies and critical infrastructure operators to deploy, fine-tune, and audit AI models within their own air-gapped environments.When CNBC’s Becky Quick told Karp he sounded angry, he pushed back, saying, “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me,” and urged the panelists to call any CEO privately to verify....
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Not exactly Churchill and the British Lion's roar but you take what you get.
The humble and lovable Winston addressing the houses of Parliament that had gathered to honor his eightieth birthday:
the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute
and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and
if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my
living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round
the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.’
