President Donald Trump's seating diagram is a who's who of AI.
Trump is hosting a "Super Intelligence Luncheon" on Tuesday, dining alongside the CEOs of most important AI labs and tech companies. Elon Musk volition be on Trump's left; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang volition be on his right.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are the two one place removed from Trump. Interestingly, two of the another big AI labs — OpenAI and Anthropic — are far removed from Trump.
OpenAI volition be represented by its president, Greg Brockman, during CEO Sam Altman continues his media blitz for the company's DevDay. Brockman is positioned throughout the array and five seats downward from Trump.
OpenAI's sometimes-contentious partner, Microsoft, volition additionally be present. CEO Satya Nadella is positioned nearer to Trump than Brockman.
Anthropic has lengthy had a rocky relationship alongside the Trump administration. Its CEO, Dario Amodei, is sitting six seats downward from Trump, nearly at the end of the table. Amodei is additional from Trump than the CEOs of part companies akin Broadcom and Micron.
Tom Brown, who served as an emissary for Anthropic during authorities negotiations, volition additionally be at the lunch. He is sitting on the contrary flank of Trump, at the end of the table.
Some another engaging lunchers: Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Arora, ServiceNow's Bill McDermott, and "All-In" co-host Chamath Palihapitiya. Palantir is represented by the two its CEO, Alex Karp, and its CTO, Shyam Sankar.
Amazon volition be represented by its originator and administrator chairman, Jeff Bezos, fairly than current CEO Andy Jassy.
Noticeably absent: Apple. As the business aims to capture up in the AI race, neither erstwhile CEO Tim Cook nor current CEO John Ternus is listed as a visitant at the event.
The lunch began at 12:30 pm on Tuesday. It is named following "Super Intelligence," the projected renaming of AI that Trump announced final week.
"The use of the term 'artificial' makes intellect fake," Trump stated at the time. "It is not fake. It's really amazing."
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Henry Chandonnet is a elder newsman on the Business News desk. He writes concerning tech culture, from Silicon Valley's startup category to the mundane AI user. He additionally closely covers Big Tech and the workplace. Henry earlier wrote for Fast Company, anywhere he covered trending tech news. He's written for The Daily Beast, People Magazine, and Vulture.Email Henry at [email protected], attain him on Signal at henrychand.30, or prosecute him on X @HenryChandonnet.
