Awkward moment at India AI Summit! OpenAI and Anthropic leaders refuse to hold hands during group photo.

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An awkward scene unfolded at the AI summit held in New Delhi, India on Thursday: during a group photo session arranged by Indian Prime Minister Modi, 14 business and political leaders, including Modi himself, stood in a line, each holding hands and raising them above their heads. However, OpenAI CEO Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who were positioned next to each other, refused to hold hands.

As the saying goes, once rivals, always rivals. During the photo, they simply crossed their arms in the air, deliberately avoiding eye contact. Amodei had previously worked at OpenAI but left and co-founded Anthropic because he believed OpenAI had become overly commercialized.

This "cold scene" quickly went viral on social media platforms in India, including X.

Today, the two respectively lead the world’s highest-valued unlisted AI companies. OpenAI is valued at about $500 billion, while Anthropic is valued at about $380 billion. This year, their competition has escalated. Anthropic has launched several breakthroughs, most notably its Claude Code toolkit, which quickly gained popularity and surpassed OpenAI’s Codex in market adoption. Subsequently, OpenAI poached the developer of the open-source AI tool OpenClaw, which was originally based on Anthropic’s technology.

Amodei’s company also directly challenged OpenAI through a high-profile Super Bowl ad. The ad emphasized that inserting advertisements into AI chatbot interactions feels awkward and promised that Claude will never have ads. Altman’s company is currently testing ad services. In response, he posted a 420-word statement on X with a somewhat defensive tone, saying that ad-supported services will make AI accessible to more people.

He wrote:

"I am very curious why Anthropic would do such an obviously dishonest thing. I suppose this fits Anthropic’s long-standing style of ‘double talk’—using a misleading ad to criticize non-existent, hypothetical misleading ads. However, a Super Bowl ad is not where I expected them to take such an approach."

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