Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

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What would person been a infinitesimal of agreed committedness to planetary tech innovation astatine the ongoing India AI Impact Summit alternatively proved an awkward one: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers astatine the lawsuit to articulation hands and rise them successful a amusement of solidarity, each executives connected signifier obliged — but OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who held their hands noticeably apart.

As leaders of the 2 foremost labs successful the AI race, it goes without saying that Altman and Amodei are fierce competitors. That rivalry has lone intensified successful caller months: aft OpenAI said it would bring advertisements to ChatGPT, Anthropic took a swipe astatine OpenAI successful a mates ads during the Super Bowl, declaring that it would ne'er present ads into Claude.

Altman soon aft hit backmost successful response, calling Anthropic “dishonest” and “authoritarian.”

“We would evidently ne'er tally ads successful the mode Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid, and we cognize our users would cull that,” helium wrote astatine the time.

Both Altman and Amodei were successful India this week for the AI acme held successful New Delhi, which saw a bevy of AI-related investments, features and products being announced. OpenAI said it is opening 2 caller offices successful India, partnering with IT elephantine TCS, and is deploying tools for higher education. Anthropic has besides opened an bureau successful India and teamed up with Infosys for interior and outer deployment of its AI tools.

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