Nvidia’s Jensen Huang won’t attend Anthropic’s CEO forum

Jensen Huang will not be at Monday’s Anthropic CEO forum.

That is a notable empty chair. The Nvidia chief and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have spent a good stretch of time disagreeing in public about how AI should be built, governed and sold.

What the event is about

Anthropic’s gathering is called “The Briefing: Work at the Frontier.” It is scheduled for November 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

The agenda centers on Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, and how businesses put it to work. Sessions cover its use in sales, legal, finance and broader enterprise workflows.

The program also includes customer panels and discussions about the future of work. For anyone not in San Francisco, a livestream begins at 9:30 a.m. PST.

A relationship with some friction

Huang and Amodei do not exactly share a worldview. Their differences have centered on three topics: AI safety, regulation and the US-China technology relationship.

Huang has openly criticized what he sees as Amodei’s alarmist stance on AI risk. Amodei has been one of the most prominent voices in the industry warning about the dangers of powerful AI systems.

The two have also clashed over chip exports. Huang has rejected calls for stringent restrictions on sending AI chips to China.

For context, Nvidia designs the chips that much of the AI industry runs on. Export rules decide who gets to buy them, which makes the policy question a direct business question for Huang.

Anthropic, meanwhile, has positioned itself as a safety-first lab. Its leadership has argued for a more cautious approach to how advanced AI capabilities spread.

None of this has stopped them from sharing a stage. Both appeared at recent industry gatherings, including a conference in September 2026 and a late-September event on AI safety principles.