Palantir released a manifesto on sovereign AI and data as 54 percent of revenue comes from government contracts

Palantir released a manifesto on sovereign AI and data amid 54% of revenue from government contracts

Palantir Technologies published a post on social network X titled "The Technological Republic, in brief" — a condensed retelling of a book by CEO Aleks Karp and Nicholas Zamiska "The Technological Republic". The essence of the message: don't give your data to suppliers of large language models and don't evaluate AI implementation by token spending.

What Palantir proposes

Palantir formulates a simple rule for clients: keep models, system work traces, and fine-tuning results on your side, not with a third-party LLM supplier. Essentially, the company proposes a version of "sovereign AI" — deploying models on your own side instead of passing data to external large language model providers. The manifesto is about control — over data, access, and the results of AI systems.

• The manifesto post is called "The Technological Republic, in brief"
• This is an extract from the book by Aleks Karp and Nicholas Zamiska "The Technological Republic"
• Published in the official Palantir account on social network X
• The company describes its market as solutions "from the factory floors to the front lines"

Why it matters, who is saying this

Palantir is not a startup in the open source world, but a company that sells tools for connecting data, managing access rights, subject-matter models and operator actions for the military, intelligence agencies and large business. According to Palantir Technologies' annual report for 2025 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 54% of the company's revenue came from government contracts and 46% — from commercial clients.

«From the factory floors to the front lines» — this is how

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

This is not a decorative section of "other nice cases" in the business structure, but nearly half of the company's total revenue — which is why the call to keep data and models "with you" sounds different than from a typical tool developer.

What it means

When a company with such revenue structure talks about "saving on tokens," it's not about thriftiness, but about a new layer of control: where data lives, who manages the model, who sees queries, who gets system traces — and who ultimately becomes a mandatory part of this entire construction.

Frequently asked questions

What is "The Technological Republic"?

It is a book by Palantir CEO Aleks Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The company released its condensed retelling as a post on X titled "The Technological Republic, in brief".

How much revenue does Palantir get from the government?

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