Palantir's valuation premium is shrinking because it is no longer the only player in defense AI. Its 2024-25 run at hundreds of times earnings rested on being first and only there, but frontier labs it once partnered with now sign directly with the Pentagon, and OpenAI and Anthropic are moving into forward-deployed engineering for enterprises. CEO Alex Karp's attack on the labs reflects that pressure. Opportunity returns once revenue and profit scale up and the valuation is digested. x.comÂ