Altman-Amodei Hand-Holding Snub Goes Viral at India AI Event (1)

Once a rival, always a rival.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the busiest day of India’s AI Summit in New Delhi, he orchestrated a photo op with 13 other business and political leaders, all standing in a line and holding each other’s hands above their heads.

Well, all of them except two.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, chief executive officers of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, were positioned next to each other and, awkwardly, refused to clasp each other’s hands. Instead, they stood with their arms crossed in the air, avoiding eye contact. Amodei had worked at ...