Palantir publishes sovereign AI and data manifesto as 54% of revenue comes from government contracts

Palantir Technologies has published a post on the social network X titled "The Technological Republic, in brief," a condensed summary of the book "The Technological Republic" by the company's CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The message: don't give your data to large language model vendors, and don't judge AI adoption by token consumption.

What Palantir proposes

Palantir offers customers a simple rule: keep the models, the traces of the system's work and the fine-tuning results with you, not with a third-party LLM vendor. In effect, the company is pitching a version of "sovereign AI": deploy models on your own side instead of passing data to external large language model providers. The manifesto is about control rather than savings: over data, access and the outputs of AI systems.

• The manifesto post is titled "The Technological Republic, in brief"
• It is a digest of the book "The Technological Republic" by Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska
• It was published on Palantir's official account on X
• The company describes its market as solutions "from the factory floors to the front lines"

Why it matters and who is speaking

Palantir is not an open-source startup. It sells tools for connecting data, managing access rights, domain-specific models and operator actions to the military, intelligence agencies and large businesses. According to Palantir Technologies' 2025 annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 54% of the company's revenue came from government customers and 46% from commercial clients.

"From the factory floors to the front lines" is how

Palantir describes the market for its solutions on the company's official website.

Government work is not a decorative "other nice use cases" section of the business. It is almost half of the company's revenue, which is why a call to keep data and models "in-house" sounds different from it than from an ordinary tool developer.

What this means

When a company with this revenue structure talks about "saving on tokens," it is not about thrift but about a new layer of control: where the data lives, who runs the model, who sees the requests, who gets the traces of the system's work, and who ends up as a mandatory part of the whole arrangement.

Frequently asked questions

What is "The Technological Republic"?

It is a book by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The company released a condensed summary of it as an X post titled "The Technological Republic, in brief."

How much of Palantir's revenue comes from governments?

According to the 2025 annual report filed with the SEC, 54% of Palantir's revenue came from government customers and 46% from commercial clients.