G7 Luncheon Sees Stark Contrast, Altman Cheers Trump's Enthusiasm, While Amodei Looks Concerned About the Stalled Model

According to Dynamica Beating monitoring, at the AI Working Lunch of the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, the publicly disclosed attendance list revealed the United States' absolute dominance in AI technology. Within the tech sector's 12 seats, the U.S. held 5 seats exclusively with Altman from OpenAI, Amodei from Anthropic, Hassabis from DeepMind, Alexandr Wang from Scale AI, and Benioff from Salesforce. In contrast, other participating countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Japan, India, and Canada were relegated to supporting roles, each receiving a scarce seat for their own country's AI leader representative, highlighting a significant imbalance in technological discourse at the table.

The seating arrangement of the three giants also hinted at subtle political treatment. OpenAI's CEO Altman sat to the right of Trump, while Google DeepMind's leader Hassabis sat close to Trump's left, positioning these two executives with crucial political influence at the core. In contrast, Amodei, the founder of Anthropic, recently subjected to a U.S. government model export ban, was marginalized and seated far away directly across from Trump, next to French President Macron, who vehemently protested the U.S. embargo.

In leaked images from the scene, Altman appeared delighted, while Amodei seemed solemn. The general opinion is that the seating allocation at this G7 luncheon is not merely a matter of social etiquette but rather signifies that leading AI giants have officially entered the power room where geopolitical decisions are made, with the seating order reflecting Washington's visible reward and punishment for each company's political compliance.