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Altman and Amodei, standing subsequent to one another, contemplated for a couple of seconds whether or not they needed to carry palms.
Altman clarified in regards to the momentary hesitation he shared with Amodei on the worldwide stage, saying that he was confused. (X)
India AI Summit 2026: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew netizens’ eyes after they raised clenched fists as an alternative of holding palms throughout a gaggle {photograph} with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Thursday.
PM Modi, on the fourth day of the summit, was on stage, flanked by the likes of Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, Sarvam co-founder Pratyush Kumar, Altman, and Amodei, for a gaggle picture.
Altman and Amodei, standing subsequent to one another, contemplated for a couple of seconds whether or not they needed to carry palms. Eventually, they raised clenched fists as an alternative of holding one another’s palms like others.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei being pressured to carry palms like two toddlers who simply bit one another at daycare is absolutely the peak of this summit. The sheer bodily repulsion radiating off them is sufficient to energy AGI. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/6gnfaZCCUv— Quant@Python (@BeingHorizontal) February 19, 2026
Meanwhile, Altman clarified in regards to the momentary hesitation he shared with Amodei on the worldwide stage, saying that he was confused about what he was alleged to be do on the stage.
Speaking to Moneycontrol, Altman mentioned that he was “form of confused” when Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was at the centre of the stage, grabbed his hand and thrust it upwards. “I just wasn’t sure what we were supposed to be doing,” he advised the information outlet.
The AI Rivalry
The awkward second highlighted the rising rivalry between OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, and Anthropic, headed by Dario Amodei.
Anthropic was based in 2021 by former OpenAI executives, together with Amodei, who beforehand served as OpenAI’s Vice President of Research. In 2020, Amodei, his sister Daniela Amodei, and different senior researchers departed from OpenAI attributable to disagreements with Altman and the board concerning the corporate’s course.
The cut up mirrored differing philosophies round AI security, governance, and industrial technique. Anthropic positions itself as a safety-focused AI lab, emphasising alignment and accountable growth by its Claude mannequin household.
OpenAI, in the meantime, has pursued fast product deployment alongside security analysis, bringing ChatGPT and enterprise AI instruments to market at scale. The corporations now compete straight in basis fashions, enterprise partnerships, and authorities engagement, with each in search of management within the race towards synthetic basic intelligence (AGI).
February 19, 2026, 17:20 IST
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