Palantir The person in charge of the UK and Europe, Louis Mosley, warns that Europe's cautious approach to artificial intelligence may repeat the mistake of failing to seize the opportunities of the internet economy.
Mosley indicates that Palantir can be regarded as a proxy indicator adopted by AI, as the company has seen strong growth in its commercial revenue in the United States, while European companies are still hesitant.
Palantir faces opposition in Europe due to its defense and law enforcement contracts, but Mosley believes that these political controversies distract attention from the potential of AI to improve public services and productivity.
Palantir ( PLTR ) The person in charge of the UK and Europe, Louis Mosley, stated that the region is making the same mistakes in artificial intelligence ( AI ) as it did during the internet era.
In an interview with CoinDesk, Mosley stated that the United States "got the internet right," establishing a large number of companies and becoming a pillar of the digital economy, while Europe "missed the opportunity."
He stated that over the past few decades, the divergence between the two markets has been quite evident. Twenty years ago, Europe and the United States were roughly comparable in terms of per capita GDP, the depth of their capital markets, and the size of their largest enterprises. Since then, the United States has continued to experience compound growth, while Europe has made little noticeable progress in comparison.
He stated that previous waves of technology have produced European champion companies, but the internet wave has hardly produced such winners. ASML ( ASML ) is one of the few exceptions.
"It is by far the largest company in Europe. This shows that value lies in technology," he said.
Mosley is the Executive Vice President in charge of UK and European operations for Palantir. He believes that AI will have an even greater impact. According to Mosley, European companies are still very cautious, adopting an attitude of "since it's new, there might be risks; I'll wait and see first."
Palantir has developed a set of ontologies and governance frameworks to assist governments and enterprises in deploying large language models and agents in the fields of healthcare, industry, or national defense.
Mosley calls this company "the purest agent on the public market for measuring a country's AI adoption speed." Palantir is not bound to a single model: customers can run OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, open-source weight models, or Chinese systems, and fine-tune them with their own data.
Palantir has encountered opposition in the UK and across Europe due to its deep cooperation with defense and law enforcement agencies. This includes providing monitoring software for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the tenure of President Donald Trump, as well as supplying targeting systems to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Activists also oppose the use of Palantir in public service systems such as the UK National Health Service (NHS) on ethical grounds.
“What really boosts their morale are Gaza and Trump,” Mosley told CoinDesk. “Palantir has contracts with the Trump administration in the United States, and in Israel, they have contracts with IDF; we also have contracts with NHS.”
According to Mosley, these disputes distract attention from domestic priorities, and they question whether politicians would tell a voter that they have to wait longer for a hip surgery because of some supplier's unrelated contracts overseas.
Political hostility towards high-energy-consuming technologies is not uncommon: ten years ago, Bitcoin miners were attacked over electricity usage issues. Today, many of them have turned to AI high-performance computing and are facing the same criticisms due to power consumption.
Mosley indicates that AI will indeed disrupt employment, but it will also free nurses and police officers from clerical work, thereby increasing productivity. Faced with a potential market that is much larger than the current approximately 1,000 clients—namely, a large number of complex organizations within the allies—he still believes that Palantir is still in its early stages.
He said that the biggest risk faced by AI remains the inability to clearly explain at the political level why this technology is beneficial to people.
“You’re making the same mistakes again,” Mosley said when referring to these recurring political responses. “In the end, I’m willing to believe that good will prevail over evil.”
