Present at the event were Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg (l), Google’s Sundar Pichai (c), and Apple’s Tim Cook (r)|Mark Zuckerberg; World Economic Forum; Climate Group|Facebook; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
President Donald Trump hosted a dinner with top tech executives yesterday at the White House. Attendees included heads of Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others, though Tesla CEO Elon Musk wasn’t there.
Once Trump’s strongest ally during his election campaign, Musk publicly fell out with the President over budget bills and tariffs.
The dinner focused on US investments in artificial intelligence. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook each pledged $600 billion, Google’s Sundar Pichai announced $250 billion, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella committed up to $80 billion annually.
Other notable attendees included OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Microsoft and Google founders Bill Gates and Sergey Brin.
The event coincided with the launch of a White House AI Education Task Force, chaired by First Lady Melania Trump, who compared AI’s development to raising children.