{"id":281701,"date":"2025-11-14T03:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281701\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:02:13","slug":"these-types-of-ai-investments-may-not-justify-the-actual-cost-warns-palantir-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281701\/","title":{"rendered":"These Types of AI Investments May Not \u2018Justify the Actual Cost,\u2019 Warns Palantir CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/experts\/insiders\/alexander-c.-karp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Karp<\/a>, the CEO of Palantir <a data-ticker=\"PLTR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/pltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(PLTR)<\/a>, believes that much of today\u2019s <a data-autolink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/compare-stocks\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> market may not be worth the huge amounts of money being spent. At Yahoo Finance\u2019s Invest event, he explained that there are really two kinds of AI. One is used for simple tasks that don\u2019t actually boost a company\u2019s profits or revenue in a meaningful way. The other, smaller part of the market is where AI can truly make a difference, either by improving business performance or by making a difference in life-or-death situations.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Your ETF AI Analyst<\/p>\n<p>Karp said that Palantir focuses on the second group, which produces real results like helping governments with military decisions or helping companies run their operations better. He added that this version of AI actually leads to noticeable changes in revenue, profits, or safety, and made it clear that Palantir is not just sharing opinions, but seeing these outcomes in real-world use. It\u2019s this high-impact part of AI that Karp says is worth the investment, not the basic, flashy tools that don\u2019t create measurable value.<\/p>\n<p>While tech companies have been racing to build AI tools, some experts warn that the hype may be too much. Firms like Meta <a data-ticker=\"META\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/meta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(META)<\/a>, Microsoft <a data-ticker=\"MSFT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/msft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(MSFT)<\/a>, Amazon <a data-ticker=\"AMZN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/amzn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(AMZN)<\/a>, and Alphabet <a data-ticker=\"GOOGL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/googl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(GOOGL)<\/a> are expected to spend over $1 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2026. However, critics like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/experts\/hedge-funds\/jim-chanos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Chanos<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/experts\/hedge-funds\/michael-burry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Burry<\/a>, and OpenAI\u2019s <a data-ticker=\"PC:OPAIQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/private-companies\/pc:opaiq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(PC:OPAIQ)<\/a> Sam Altman say the stock market may be in a bubble. Nevertheless, Karp still believes that Palantir will lead the enterprise AI space, but stated that the consumer AI market is \u201cvery weak and fading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is PLTR Stock a Good Buy?<\/p>\n<p>Overall, analysts have a Hold consensus rating on PLTR stock based on three Buys, 11 Holds, and two Sells assigned in the past three months, as indicated by the graphic below. Furthermore, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/pltr\/forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">average PLTR price target<\/a>\u00a0of $187.87 per share implies 7.9% upside potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/pltr\/forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1489-1024x763.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2631431\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/pltr\/forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more PLTR analyst ratings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/glossary\/d\/disclaimer-disclosure\" style=\"margin-right: 32px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disclaimer &amp; Disclosure<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/glossary\/c\/contact-editor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report an Issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir (PLTR), believes that much of today\u2019s AI market may not be worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-281701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}