Karp began his career founding Caedmon Group, a strategy and capital consulting group in New York City with money from his grandfather's inheritance. He also founded a hedge fund named Clarium Capital. Karp started Palantir in 2003 with co-founder, chairman and former Stanford classmate Peter Thiel. He worked with Stanford computer science graduates Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen and PayPal engineer Nathan Gettings to code the software. The company's first and only customer from 2005-2008 was the CIA, who alpha tested and evaluated the software. Karp described his primary motivation for Palantir in July 2013, saying his goal is to "kill or maim" competitors including IBM and Booz Allen.
Born on October 2, 1967, Alexander Karp is an American billionaire businessman, co-founder, and CEO of Palantir Technologies, the most controversial Californian big data company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence services and military agencies.
Alexander Karp became the CEO of Palantir Technologies in 2004 after co-founding the company with his old Stanford classmate Peter Thiel, who was also an early investor in Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal alongside Elon Musk. Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, and Nathan Gettings were the other co-founders. The company’s name is derived from the description of seeing stones in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” which can see into the past and present.
The business creates software that can compile a vast amount of data about millions of individuals, such as phone records, social media profiles, job histories, and much more. Thiel, the company’s co-founder, is well-connected to Donald Trump, the departing president of the United States, as well as to the Pentagon and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
2023
Leading AI system supplier Palantir Technologies Inc. said it was named a high performer in Dresner Advisory Services’ 2023 AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning Wisdom of Crowds® Market Study. Palantir was ranked first among the top suppliers in terms of analytical features & capabilities, model operations, and usability.
Chief Architect of Palantir Akshay Krishnaswamy stated, “Organizations can bring the power of Generative AI into their most critical operations with Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP).” “We appreciate this recognition by the Dresner team, and believe it reflects the real-world results being seen by the hundreds of enterprises using AIP in production today.”
Palantir, a tech company, has released a video demo of its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), which integrates large language models (LLMs) into privately-operated networks. The video showcases the AIP’s potential use in military warfare scenarios, but raises ethical concerns about its ethical implications. Palantir has faced criticism for its data-analysis software, including its use by US immigration authorities and UK health data.
The panel, “The Next Century of Health,” discussed how technology can enable improved patient-centric care, as well as create more equitable and holistic healthcare solutions.
