New Delhi, March 5 -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called out OpenAI's messaging regarding the Pentagon deal to power its classified work. Notably, OpenAI announced its deal with the US government last week, just hours after its rival, Anthropic, was blacklisted by the US government. Even CEO Sam Altman had gone on to admit that the timing of OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon looked 'opportunistic and sloppy' and later regretted the timing of the announcement.

Altman has also spent the last few days explaining the Pentagon deal, stating that OpenAI's deal with the government has more safeguards in place than its deal with Anthropic. However, Amodei isn't buying that explanation as he wrote a memo to his staff calling OpenAI's messaging '...