What would have been a second of united dedication to international tech innovation on the ongoing India AI Impression Summit as a substitute proved a clumsy one: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted audio system on the occasion to hitch arms and lift them in a present of solidarity, all executives on stage obliged β besides OpenAIβs Sam Altman and Anthropicβs Dario Amodei, who held their arms noticeably aside.
As leaders of the 2 foremost labs within the AI race, it goes with out saying that Altman and Amodei are fierce rivals. That rivalry has solely intensified in current months: after OpenAI mentioned it will deliver commercials to ChatGPT, Anthropic took a swipe at OpenAI in a pair advertisements throughout the Tremendous Bowl, declaring that it will by no means introduce advertisements into Claude.
Altman quickly after hit again in response, calling Anthropic βdishonestβ and βauthoritarian.β
βWe’d clearly by no means run advertisements in the way in which Anthropic depicts them. We’re not silly, and we all know our customers would reject that,β he wrote on the time.
Each Altman and Amodei had been in India this week for the AI summit held in New Delhi, which noticed a bevy of AI-related investments, options and merchandise being introduced. OpenAI mentioned it’s opening two new places of work in India, partnering with IT large TCS, and is deploying instruments for greater training. Anthropic has additionally opened an workplace in India and teamed up with Infosys for inner and exterior deployment of its AI instruments.
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