Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Wednesday slammed the token-based pricing model used by OpenAI and Anthropic, stating, “Something has gone completely wrong.” He warned that the prevailing enterprise mindset has become, “I’m going to chillax and waste my time with tokens,” adding, “I’m going to get no value and they’re going to get my IP.” Karp noted that enterprises are moving away from tokenmaxxing and toward return on investment, increasingly adopting lower-cost open-weight models or building their own tools. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged the trend last month, saying, “I’m a tokenmaxxer too, it’s addictive,” and urged employees to avoid using frontier models “for non-frontier problems.” Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya estimated enterprises could pay $105,000 a month for GPT-5.5 Pro compared with $2,740 for DeepSeek R1, calling the pricing gap “enormous.” Karp also cautioned against underestimating China’s accelerating AI progress. The comments follow Palantir’s expanded partnership with Nvidia this week to build custom AI models for U.S. government agencies. Karp said, “What aligns me with Nvidia… is control over their compute, their models, their data stack and their alpha.” Palantir has a market capitalization of $301.41 billion, a 52-week high of $207.52 and a 52