India, Feb. 19 -- An awkward moment occurred at the India AI Summit stage this morning when Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, CEOs of rival AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, refused to hold hands for a group photograph. The incident has exploded on social media and set "Dario Amodei" trending on Google in India. (Also read: Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei avoid holding hands while on stage with PM Modi. Awkward moment goes viral)

Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude.

Amodei has a contentious history with OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman. He spent over four years at OpenAI before leaving the sta...