Alex Karp, chief executive and co-founder of Palantir, speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in May 2022. Credit: World Economic Forum \/ Benedikt von Loebell \/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr (cropped) Palantir\u2019s US commercial business brought in more revenue than its US government work for the first time in the third quarter. US commercial revenue rose 148% from a year earlier to $984m, the company said in its earnings release on Monday. Revenue from the US government rose 96% to $953m.<\/p>\n
Total revenue also rose 96%, to $2.31bn, the first quarter above $2bn. Analysts had expected $2.18bn, according to LSEG estimates reported by CNBC. Adjusted earnings of 44 cents a share beat the 41 cents analysts expected. Net income more than doubled to $1.13bn, or 44 cents a share, from $476m a year earlier. \u201cI don\u2019t believe anyone\u2019s had consistent results like this in the history of software AI, ever,\u201d chief executive Alex Karp told CNBC\u2019s Seema Mody.<\/p>\n
Karp also told CNBC the business is succeeding without salespeople. A higher forecast Palantir raised its full-year revenue forecast to between $8.530bn and $8.534bn, which would mean growth of 91%. Analysts had expected $8.2bn on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company now expects more than $3.559bn in US commercial revenue this year, growth of at least 143%.<\/p>\n
Three months ago, it forecast $3.42bn. For the fourth quarter, it expects revenue of about $2.65bn. Palantir closed 212 deals worth at least $1m in the quarter, 64 of them worth at least $10m. It ended September with $10.4bn in cash and US Treasury securities.<\/p>\n
Karp on sovereign AI \u201cThe Sovereign AI movement is imposing the most dramatic dichotomy between haves and have nots that I have witnessed in 30 years of business,\u201d Karp said in the release. Karp has backed open-weight AI models and criticised the leading AI labs. On Monday, he repeated his call to nationalise them. He told CNBC it was the \u201conly realistic way\u201d to manage liability.<\/p>\n
In June, he said Senator Bernie Sanders would regret asking for only 50% of AI companies. What worries investors Palantir shares closed at $178.34 in New York on Monday, down 3.1%, and were volatile in after-hours trading, Andrew Martin reported for Bloomberg. Investors have worried that the stock may be overvalued, amid more competition and tough comparisons with strong earlier quarters, he wrote. In August, investors also feared competition from AI developers such as Anthropic, which sell their own software.<\/p>\n
Another fear was that governments outside the US would turn to homegrown tech firms. In September, Germany\u2019s military was evaluating 30 AI tools, with a prototype due in 2027. In May, Palantir\u2019s first-quarter results landed in the middle of an AI software sell-off. Get the TNW newsletter \u2715 Close Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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