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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi was marked by visible tension as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pointedly avoided interaction. This awkward diplomatic display underscores the widening ideological and commercial divide between the industry's most prominent AI safety advocates and its leading commercializers.
Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei are facing a strategic impasse with the Pentagon over the military application of their Claude models. The conflict underscores a growing divide between the company's safety-first 'Constitutional AI' philosophy and the U.S. government's push for AI-driven national security dominance.
Anthropic has raised a massive $30 billion Series G funding round, valuing the AI safety-focused firm at $380 billion. This capital injection underscores the escalating compute arms race and positions Anthropic as a primary challenger to OpenAI and Google in the foundation model market.