"An awkward moment between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at an AI Summit Thursday captured the increasingly icy relations between two rival tech leaders who started off as colleagues. Onstage with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India AI Impact Summit, Altman and Amodei seemingly refused to touch during a photo op. Modi grabbed Altman's hand and lifted it for a group photo, but Altman and Amodei, standing side by side, did not clasp hands or make eye contact."
"The most recent conflict between Altman and Amodei came after Anthropic, earlier this month, released a four-ad Super Bowl campaign titled "A Time and a Place," indirectly poking fun at OpenAI's recent move to include ads in ChatGPT. Each commercial opened with a single, loaded word splashed across the screen: "betrayal," "deception," "treachery," and "violation." In each of the commercials, ordinary people seeking advice from an artificially-sounding person standing in for the AI chatbot were interrupted by unwarranted advertisements."
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei displayed visible tension onstage at the India AI Impact Summit alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During a group photo Modi lifted Altman's hand, but Altman and Amodei did not clasp hands or make eye contact and instead raised their fists. Altman later told reporters he was confused about what to do when Modi grabbed his hand. The estrangement reflects an escalating rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic. Anthropic ran a four-ad Super Bowl campaign "A Time and a Place" satirizing ads in ChatGPT, opening with words like "betrayal" and ending with the tagline "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude."
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