Palantir’s Alex Karp Drops Bombshell Announcement – Nvidia Investors, Brace for Impact

Palantir CEO Alex Karp just handed Nvidia shareholders a golden ticket—here's why the chip giant's stock is primed for another moonshot.

The AI Arms Race Heats Up

Karp's latest comments signal a seismic shift in enterprise demand for Nvidia's hardware. No vague promises—just hard confirmation that Palantir's government and corporate clients are gobbling up GPUs like they're going out of style.

Silicon Valley's Worst-Kept Secret

Every tech CEO claims to be 'all-in on AI,' but Palantir's actual deployment numbers don't lie. Their classified contracts with defense agencies alone could single-handedly keep Nvidia's foundries humming through 2026.

Short Sellers Beware

While Wall Street analysts debate 'peak GPU demand,' real-world adoption is accelerating faster than their spreadsheet models can handle. Another quarter, another guidance beat—wash, rinse, repeat.

Nvidia's dominance isn't just continuing—it's metastasizing. And as any crypto trader knows, when the trend's your friend, you ride it until the wheels fall off (or the Fed ruins the party).

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Blockbuster results

To say that Palantir's results beat expectations may be an understatement. For the second quarter, revenue of $1 billion surged 48% year over year and 14% quarter over quarter. This fueled adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.16, which soared 78%.

For context, analysts' consensus estimates called for revenue of $939 million and adjusted EPS of $0.14, so Palantir cleared the already high bar investors had set.

The headline numbers aside, the star of the show was Palantir's U.S. commercial segment, which includes the company's flagship Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). Revenue for the segment accelerated for the eighth successive quarter to $306 million, up 93% year over year and 20% sequentially. At the same time, the segment's customer count climbed 64%, as new businesses flock to AIP. This helped drive the segment's total contract value to $843 million, soaring an impressive 222%.

It's worth noting that not all the benefits will show up in the current quarter, but rather, the company is setting the stage for future growth. Palantir's remaining performance obligation (RPO), which represents contractually obligated revenue that hasn't yet hit sales, surged 77% to $2.42 billion. This provides insight into future growth, and the future looks bright.

Broader implications

Beyond the good news for Palantir investors, the results have much more to say about what's happening across the AI landscape.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently predicted that data center spending to support AI WOULD soar 300% to more than $1 trillion by 2028.

Recent revelations by big tech seem to support that view. Each of the "big three" cloud infrastructure providers has revealed plans in recent weeks to increase their 2025 capital expenditures (capex) to support the growing demand for AI among their customers. This generally translates to revenue growth for Nvidia, as its GPUs are the Gold standard for AI processing.

More broadly, however, the adoption of AI is moving downstream, as evidenced by Palantir's accelerating results. In order for enterprise businesses to implement AI internally, they will need the necessary infrastructure (read: AI-capable chips) to power those systems, which also bodes well for Nvidia.

Naysayers continue to suggest the implementation of AI is slowing, despite significant evidence to the contrary. The bottom line is that the adoption of AI continues at a healthy clip.

Nvidia holds a dominant position in the data center GPU market, with a 92% share, according to IoT Analytics. Yet as AI moves beyond the data center, Nvidia stands to benefit from the further proliferation of AI, as its processors are table stakes for both the training and inference of AI models.

The AI revolution has fueled meteoric gains for Nvidia since the advent of AI at the start of 2023, as the stock has soared 1,120% (as of this writing). The stock is currently trading for 31 times next year's expected earnings, and while some might call that frothy, I would argue that it's a reasonable price to pay for a company expected to grow revenue by 54% this fiscal year.

Nvidia has established itself as the AI chip leader, and despite the stock's epic run, the evidence suggests there's likely more to come.