Altman, Amodei keep hands apart at India AI summit
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- Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked speakers at the India AI Impact Summit to join hands in solidarity, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei held their hands apart.
- OpenAI announced it will bring advertisements to ChatGPT, prompting a Super Bowl ad response from Anthropic that it would never introduce ads into Claude.
- Sam Altman called Anthropic “dishonest” and “authoritarian,” stating “We would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them.”
- OpenAI is opening two new offices in India, partnering with IT services firm TCS, and deploying AI tools for higher education.
- Anthropic opened an office in India and partnered with Infosys for internal and external deployment of its AI tools.
- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei attended the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where multiple AI-related investments, features, and products were announced.
Why it matters: The public split of hands highlights that, even as both firms pour resources into India—OpenAI with two new offices and a TCS partnership, Anthropic with an Infosys collaboration—their competitive clash remains visible, shaping how Indian tech partners and customers may align with either lab.
