At an AI summit in New Delhi, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei stood side by side but declined to clasp hands during a photo op with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Google’s Sundar Pichai—an image that captured the intensifying rivalry between the two San Francisco AI labs. The companies are vying to make ChatGPT and Claude the consumer default for generative AI while trading barbs over whether to introduce advertising into chatbots. Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI staffers, has positioned itself as a safety-first challenger and, like OpenAI, has raised billions as both pursue users, enterprise customers and distribution deals. On stage, Amodei warned of autonomous-system risks and economic dislocation; Altman pressed for a broader definition of safety that includes societal resilience and industry coordination. The episode underscores a sharpening contest over product strategy, monetization and standards in a market increasingly shaped by Big Tech alliances and policy priorities in key growth markets such as India.
OpenAI–Anthropic tensions laid bare as Altman and Amodei skip handhold at India AI summit
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