OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Claude chatbot maker Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad ‘clearly dishonest’|World Economic Forum|CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic’s new Super Bowl advertisement, saying it unfairly targeted the use of ads in chatbots. The criticism comes after OpenAI announced plans to test ads for free users and ChatGPT Go subscribers in the US.
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers who opposed the company’s direction, released a series of ads that will feature in pre-game and in-game. It carried the tagline, “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude,” highlighting its commitment to keeping its chatbot ad-free.
Posting on X, Altman called the ad “funny” but “clearly dishonest.” He insisted that OpenAI would never implement intrusive ads and said they are a way to “bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.”
Altman also described Anthropic’s approach to AI control as “deceptive” and “authoritarian.”
Both companies continue to compete for market dominance and billions in capital. OpenAI launched a new platform called Frontier, which touts AI agents for its enterprise users, while Anthropic released its latest Claude model.