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Anthropic CEO called Jensen Huang 'kind of Trump-like' during heated dinner — Nvidia CEO reportedly called Anthropic executive a 'bean counter' after Google TPU comparison An excerpt from Kevin Roose's upcoming book describes a very awkward dinner. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had a rocky first meeting, according to an upcoming book. Kevin Roose, the author of the forthcoming book, The AGI Chronicles, published an excerpt on X that their initial rendezvous was filled with disagreements and included some slights. The meeting, which the book says took place in May 2022 at the high-end Chinese restaurant Eight Tables in San Francisco, was to discuss Anthropic's compute needs. Roose writes that ahead of the dinner, Anthropic's chief compute officer, Tom Brown, had attempted to haggle for a discount on GPUs, showing Huang a spreadsheet suggesting that Tensor Processing Units from Google were, "dollar-for-dollar, a better investment than Nvidia's chips." That's when things reportedly got nasty. The book claims that Huang, angry at the comparison, called Brown a "bean counter," though an Nvidia spokesperson denied that to Roose. The dinner afterward didn't go much better. Huang reportedly talked about building the biggest data center in the world, which Amodei repeatedly pressed Huang on with various questions. Huang "just kept repeating himself," the book alleges, citing a source who saw the dinner. That led Amodei to mutter that Huang was being "kind of Trump-like." While no deal was struck at the dinner, the companies did later come up with a partnership. Today, Anthropic uses a mix of GPUs from Nvidia and AMD, Google's TPUs, and is working on co-designing its own custom inference chips. Amodei recently published an essay entitled "We Must Pace the Frontier" recommending slowing down the pace at which new AI models are improved and dined with the actual Donald Trump. Huang has publicly disagreed with calls for pacing and regulation, and instead has said in interviews that companies should self-police. Huang also said that companies that release unsafe products should be shut down. Many rogue AI attacks, such as OpenAI's model attacking Hugging Face, were in training during these incidents. The AGI Chronicles releases on Oct. 6. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News, or add us as a preferred source, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Andrew E. Freedman is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Tom's Guide, Laptop Mag, Kotaku, PCMag and Complex, among others. Follow him on Threads @FreedmanAE and BlueSky @andrewfreedman.net. You can send him tips on Signal: andrewfreedman.01 - thesyndrome ReplyHuang also said that companies that release unsafe products should be shut down Unsafe products like 16-pin power connectors that melt? - Jabberwocky79 Reply Jensen would say that's fake newsthesyndrome said:Unsafe products like 16-pin power connectors that melt? - upsetkiller Reply That's a pcie-sig problem not a nvidia or amd problem, yes amd cards have melted toothesyndrome said:Unsafe products like 16-pin power connectors that melt? - PEnns ReplyJabberwocky79 said:Jensen would say that's fake news And that's why he received the ultimate insult from Anthropic....he reminded them of someone who uses the word frequently.. .😜 - Lamarr the Strelok Reply Correct me if needed but I think it's an nvidia design adopted by PCI-sig.It's not adequate for '80 and'90 series GPU's. This connector is the exact reason electrical engineering has a certain amount of headroom for current carrying ability.upsetkiller said:That's a pcie-sig problem not a nvidia or amd problem, yes amd cards have melted too - alan.campbell99 Certainly an interesting clash of personalities. Dario is an annoying disingenuous lying grifter and Jensen is more and more a desperate greedy CEO striving to keep number go up through circular financing and other shenanigans.Reply
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