Viral Moment: Altman and Anthropic CEO Amodei looked uncomfortable in the photo session with PM Modi at AI summit

Delhi. While taking a photo on the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the ‘India AI Impact Summit’, an uncomfortable moment was captured on camera between the top executives of two rival US AI companies, which later went viral on social media. The technology giants present on the stage after Prime Minister Modi’s address at the summit included Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google.

During the group photo, Modi raised the hands of Pichai and Altman standing next to him and urged other participants to do the same. However, Altman and Amodei, standing next to each other, raised fists instead of shaking hands, preventing the series from being completed. At this time both the veterans were seen a little uneasy.

Altman has been the CEO of American AI research organization OpenAI since 2019 and it was under his leadership that the popular AI tool ChatGPT was introduced. Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, an AI company famous for its cloud models. By the way, Altman and Amodei have previously worked together in the same company. In 2020, Amodei, along with his sister Daniela Amodei and some other senior researchers, separated from OpenAI and founded Anthropic.