AI Rivalry Heats Up: Altman, Amodei Snub Handshake at Modi's AI Summit

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei avoided a symbolic handshake at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, highlighting their companies' growing rivalry.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted the summit, emphasizing collaboration, but attention focused on the subtle tension between the AI leaders.
• Amodei, a former OpenAI VP, founded Anthropic in 2021 due to disagreements over AI development direction, safety, and commercialization.
• The rivalry intensified recently with Anthropic's Super Bowl ads criticizing OpenAI's alleged plans for ChatGPT ads, which Altman called "deceptive."
• Anthropic recently raised $30 billion, doubling its valuation to $380 billion, and is focusing on coding capabilities with its Claude Code tool.