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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei refused to hold hands at an AI summit weeks after OpenAI and Anthropic clashed in a tense Super Bowl ad war

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An awkward moment between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at an AI Summit Thursday captured the increasingly icy relations between two rival tech leaders who started off as colleagues.

Onstage with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India AI Impact Summit, Altman and Amodei seemingly refused to touch during a photo op. Modi grabbed Altman’s hand and lifted it for a group photo, but Altman and Amodei, standing side by side, did not clasp hands or make eye contact. 

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