Palantir CEO says China’s DeepSeek shows that U.S. needs ‘all-country effort’ in AI

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said the rise of competing artificial intelligence models such as China’s DeepSeek is a sign that the U.S. needs to work quicker to develop advanced AI.

“Technology is not inherently good,” and could pose threats in the hands of adversaries, Karp told CNBC’s Sara Eisen in an interview airing Friday. “We have to acknowledge that, but that also just means we have to run harder, run faster, have an all-country effort.”

Karp, whose company develops software and systems used…