Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBC's Squawk Box on July 1 and called out companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI for their the token-based pricing model, saying "something has gone completely wrong" in the industry.
The comments were blunt enough on their own, but it was his read on enterprise psychology that resonated with social media. He said companies are stuck in a "chillax and waste my time with tokens" mindset instead of asking what they're actually getting for their expenditure.