[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-anthropic-and-nvidia-ceos-clashed-before-becoming-partners-book-says":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},8378,"anthropic-and-nvidia-ceos-clashed-before-becoming-partners-book-says","Anthropic and Nvidia CEOs Clashed Before Becoming Partners, Book Says","A new book claims Dario Amodei privately compared Jensen Huang to Trump after a 2022 dinner meant to negotiate GPU pricing for Anthropic.","Anthropic's Dario Amodei once likened Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Donald Trump, and it wasn't a compliment.\n\nAccording to an excerpt from Kevin Roose's forthcoming book *The AGI Chronicles*, the two CEOs' first meeting in May 2022 at a San Francisco restaurant went sideways fast. Anthropic's chief compute officer, Tom Brown, reportedly opened by pitching Huang on a spreadsheet showing Google's TPUs as a better dollar-for-dollar bet than Nvidia's GPUs, a comparison Huang allegedly answered by calling Brown a \"bean counter\" (Nvidia denies this). Over dinner, Huang talked up plans to build the world's biggest data center; when Amodei pressed him with follow-up questions, Huang, according to the book, \"just kept repeating himself.\" Amodei reportedly muttered afterward that Huang was being \"kind of Trump-like.\"\n\nThe anecdote lands years into a public divergence over how fast AI should move. Amodei has pushed for slowing frontier model development, most recently in his essay \"We Must Pace the Frontier,\" while Huang has argued companies should self-police rather than wait on regulation. That the two eventually built a working relationship anyway, with Anthropic now running on a mix of Nvidia GPUs, AMD chips, and Google TPUs while developing its own inference chips, says more about compute scarcity than personal chemistry.\n\nA tense dinner over spreadsheets in 2022 didn't stop either company from needing the other; it just delayed the paperwork.","[\"anthropic\",\"nvidia\",\"dario-amodei\",\"ai-compute\"]","2026-09-29T09:30:00.000Z","2026-09-29T10:37:23.909Z","2026-09-29T10:37:31.378Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28,29],"anthropic","nvidia","dario-amodei","ai-compute",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Ftech-industry\u002Fanthropic-ceo-described-jensen-huang-as-kind-of-trump-like-during-2022-meeting-nvidia-ceo-reportedly-called-anthropic-executive-a-bean-counter-after-google-tpu-comparison",0,{"sections":36},[37,41,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":24,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI",4925,"2026-09-29T10:30:00.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",769,"2026-09-29T12:05:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy","policy",408,"2026-09-29T11:27:55.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",280,"2026-09-29T11:56:06.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",192,"2026-09-29T11:00:48.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Science","science",154,"2026-09-28T13:19:18.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",139,"2026-09-28T17:09:47.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Software","software",91,"2026-09-25T20:55:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",88,"2026-09-29T08:26:28.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",81,"2026-09-29T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",49,"2026-09-28T16:44:57.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",48,"2026-09-25T18:35:21.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]