Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei comments that a viral moment involving Sam Altman “holding hands” at the India AI Summit was triggered by confusion during the event rather than any tension between competing AI companies. According to the reports, Amodei says organizers effectively directed attendees to follow a shared gesture, describing it as an instruction that “ordered us all” to do the same thing. He frames the incident as a disorganized on-site situation, where participants followed prompts they received in the moment. The CEO’s remarks aim to clarify that the widely shared image or clip does not reflect a broader dispute between AI leaders or rival firms. In this account, any apparent awkwardness comes from coordination problems at the summit, not from interpersonal or competitive hostility. The story highlights how a logistical breakdown at a high-profile conference can quickly become viral and be misinterpreted as signaling rivalry.