What would have been a moment of united commitment to global technological innovation in the present times India AI Impact Summit What proved to be a rather awkward one: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of solidarity, all the executives on stage obliged — except OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who held their hands apart.
As the leaders of the two leading laboratories in the AI race, it goes without saying that Altman and Amodei are fierce competitors. That rivalry has only intensified in recent months: OpenAI said it would bring advertising to ChatGPAT, Anthropic took a dig at OpenAI in a few commercials during the Super Bowl, and announced it would never bring advertising to the cloud.
Altman soon after hit backAnthropic has been called “dishonest” and “authoritarian”.
“We would obviously never run ads the way Anthropic portrays them. We’re not stupid, and we know our users would reject it,” he said wrote In those days.
Both Altman and Amodei were in India this week for the AI Summit held in New Delhi, which announced AI-related investments, features and products. OpenAI said it is opening two new offices in India. Partnership with IT giant TCSand there is deploying tools for higher education. Anthropic has also opened an office in India and has worked together Infosys for internal and external deployment of its AI tools.
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