Palantir CEO Alex Karp on how China operates vs the US:“In the West, we actually care when humans die.”“China or Russia—Russia’s lost 700,000 people in Ukraine. They don’t care.”“We don’t care if we lose a piece of steel, we do if we lose a human.”Via NSIF

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on using LLMs to get real value, in 2024:“Buying models is going to be essentially ‘self-pleasuring’ for an enterprise at the cost of the enterprise.”The alternative to Palantir: “You buy an LLM, you party with it, and the next day you have a hangover.”