Overview

• The dinner followed First Lady Melania Trump’s AI Education Task Force meeting, where Google announced a $150 million commitment to AI education.
• Because of rain, the planned Rose Garden gathering was relocated indoors to the White House State Dining Room.
• Invitees included Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Safra Catz, David Limp, Sanjay Mehrotra, Alexandr Wang, Shyam Sankar and Jared Isaacman.
• Executives publicly praised the administration and cited large U.S. investments, with Zuckerberg and Cook each citing $600 billion, Pichai $250 billion and Nadella up to $80 billion per year.
• Elon Musk was not on the invite list, highlighting shifting ties as tech leaders increasingly engage with the administration’s accelerated, more deregulatory AI strategy.