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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the busiest day of India\u2019s 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\u2019s hands above their heads.<\/p>\n
Well, all of them except two.<\/p>\n
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, chief executive officers of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, were positioned next to each other and, awkwardly, refused to clasp each other\u2019s hands. Instead, they stood with their arms crossed in the air, avoiding eye contact.<\/p>\n
Amodei had worked at OpenAI, but left to cofound his company because he felt that OpenAI was becoming too commercially focused.<\/p>\n
The snub went viral on social media platforms in India, including X. In a video after, Altman said he \u201cdidn\u2019t know what was happening on stage\u201d and wasn\u2019t sure what he was supposed to do. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the video.<\/p>\n
The two now lead the most valuable closely held AI companies in the world, with OpenAI worth about $500 billion ($708 billion) and Anthropic valued at $380 billion.<\/p>\n
Their competition intensified this year with a series of advances by Anthropic \u2014 most notably the growing popularity of its Claude Code suite<\/a>, which is ahead of OpenAI\u2019s Codex in market adoption \u2014 followed by OpenAI hiring the developer of OpenClaw<\/a>, a popular open source AI tool that got its start by using Anthropic technology.<\/p>\n Amodei\u2019s company went directly at OpenAI with a high-profile Super Bowl ad, depicting how out of place advertisements would be in AI chatbot interactions and promising that Claude will never have ads.<\/p>\n Related Article Altman, whose company is testing ads, responded with<\/a> a somewhat defensive, 420-word X post, in which he argued ad-supported services will make AI available to more people.<\/p>\n \u201cI wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI guess it\u2019s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren\u2019t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it.\u201d<\/p>\n With assistance from Vlad Savov and Shirin Ghaffary.<\/p>\n Bloomberg<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n From our partners![\"If](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770177911_66_f407f66a756988240db2a63c35c5584430c7d661ed0288598ce3d3e69f09244d.jpeg\")
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