Anthropic CEO described Jensen Huang as 'kind of Trump-like' during 2022 meeting
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 …
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