Sam Altman tears into Anthropic's latest AI safety ad: 'Thought this was satire' | Mint

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's new ad as 'satire' amidst ongoing tensions with Elon Musk.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has attacked Anthropic over a new ad from the Claude maker which he said looked like 'satire'. The new attack by Altman comes amid the OpenAI's chief's ongoing feud with Elon Musk and the recent lawsuit filed by Apple over theft of confidential trade secrets.

There's hope in hard questions." Anthropic wrote in a post X that contained a video containing what seemed like random pictures and posed questions over AI safety.

Some of th questions in the video included, "Can AI be trusted?" and "If it ends up taking like almost all the jobs, then what does it mean to work?"

Altman responded to the video writing, "i thought this was satire, kept looking for the handle to be spelled c1audeai or something"

"hard questions are great but only if we deem you worthy enough to not silently downgrade you, or even get access at all" he added

In a separate post on X that seemed to be aimed at OpenAI's rivals, Altman wrote, "come for the best model, stay because we don't treat you with contempt"

Notably, this is not the first time that tensions have flared up between OpenAI and Anthropic. In fact, Anthropic is set up by former OpenAI employees Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei.

The sourness in the relationship between the two companies was on full display during the AI Impact Summit held in India earlier this year as well when Amodei and Altman refused to hold hands during the "unity hand-raise," initiated by PM Modi.

Meanwhile, Anthropic had also targetted OpenAI with a series of Super Bowl ads earlier this year which targetted OpenAI's plans to brings ads to cheaper Go tier and free users. Anthropic, in response, vowed to keep Claude completely ad-free.

"Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude." read one commercial by Anthropic

Altman went on to call the ads funny but 'deceptive'.

"I guess it's on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren't real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it." the OpenAI chief wrote then

Recently, OpenAI released its latest GPT-5.6 series of models which it claimed even surpasses the performance of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model which was widely considered to be the most powerful AI model at the time.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk battle:

After the GPT-5.6 launch, Altman also found himself in a renewed public spat with Musk, who once again referred to the OpenAI chief as "Scam Altman."

Meanwhile, Altman described it as a sign of ChatGPT being in the right direction that Musk was 'obsessed' with him once again. He also accused Musk of deceiving public market investors on claims of starting AI datacenters in space.

Musk responded by bringing in the new lawsuit filed by Apple and claimed that OpenAI stole Apple's phone technology.

"After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple's phone technology! Wow. What do you plan for an encore? That's tough to beat." Musk wrote