Shares of data analytics company Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) fell 7.6% in the morning session after legendary investor Michael Burry claimed (in a deleted social media post) that rival Anthropic is “eating the company’s lunch.”
Burry highlighted Anthropic’s massive surge in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), the predictable yearly income from subscriptions, which reportedly jumped to $30 billion. He argued that businesses favored Anthropic’s cheaper, more intuitive tools over Palantir’s complex, high-touch platform.
The decline deepened as Anthropic launched Managed Agents, autonomous AI systems that perform complex tasks without human intervention. Traders were worried these would disrupt the traditional SaaS (Software as a Service) model, software delivered via subscription, by replacing human-operated tools with more efficient AI workers.
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Palantir Technologies’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 33 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was about 21 hours ago when the stock dropped 6.1% on the news that Anthropic announced Managed Agents, a hosted service for long-running AI tasks.
Investors reacted to the potential disruption of existing SaaS business models, as these agents continued to pose a threat to expensive, seat-based enterprise software with more efficient, autonomous AI infrastructure. Managed agents are specialized AI systems that can independently execute multi-step, long-duration tasks. Unlike standard AI chatbots or basic APIs that require constant human prompting, managed agents feature durable states and resumable workflows, allowing them to pause and restart without losing progress.
While traditional software products require manual input for every action, these agents use “policy-guarded tools” to interact with digital environments, making them autonomous workers rather than just passive tools.
Palantir Technologies is down 21.6% since the beginning of the year, and at $131.61 per share, it is trading 36.5% below its 52-week high of $207.18 from November 2025. Despite the year-to-date decline, investors who bought $1,000 worth of Palantir Technologies’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $5,475.
