AI Is Making One-Person Million-Dollar Companies More Common

The data is starting to catch up with the speculation. While most debates about AI and jobs still revolve around which roles will disappear, a quieter shift is already visible in the numbers: solo business applications in AI-exposed sectors have risen nearly 27% since early 2024, and the number of solopreneurs earning a million dollars or more more than doubled between 2023 and 2025. The first labor market shock from AI may not be mass unemployment, but a migration of workers away from traditional firms.

Palantir's CEO Goes After Frontier Model Companies

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, used a CNBC appearance to launch a full-throated attack on OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that US government customers are migrating to open-weight models over sovereignty concerns. "What the technical customers want is control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their alpha," Karp said. "They want to know they own the means of production and it's not being transferred to someone else." He claimed that some government departments have already switched to Nvidia's open-source Nemotron model, which he said provides "equal or in some cases superior performance on battlefield use cases." Karp expects every Palantir client to begin using open models "as soon as they see it being at parity." Both Anthropic and OpenAI pu