Altman and Amodei Decline to Join Hands at India AI Impact Summit

Key Points

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked summit speakers to join hands; Sam Altman and Dario Amodei kept their hands apart.
• OpenAI announced plans to add advertisements to ChatGPT, prompting a public dispute with Anthropic.
• Anthropic released Super Bowl ads warning against ads in its Claude model and called OpenAI’s approach dishonest.
• OpenAI will open two new offices in India and partner with Tata Consultancy Services to support higher‑education AI tools.
• Anthropic also opened an Indian office and teamed up with Infosys for internal and external AI deployments.
• The incident highlighted the competitive tension between the two leading AI labs despite the summit’s collaborative setting.