Trump Hosts Top Tech CEOs at White House for AI-Focused Strategy Meeting

United States President Donald J. Trump hosted leading American technology executives at the White House, in a high-profile meeting focused on advancing U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.

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The event was attended by CEOs and founders from OpenAI, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, AMD, and Alphabet, among others. Discussions centered on AI innovation, domestic infrastructure, semiconductor expansion, and strategic coordination between the federal government and the private sector.

The meeting builds on the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan and First Lady Melania Trump’s push to promote AI education nationwide. The First Lady also attended the event.

The tech executives offered public remarks following the meeting, praising the administration’s approach. 

“Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation President. It’s a very refreshing change,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. “The ability to get the power of the industry back in the United States is going to set us up for a long period of great success.” 

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, said, “It’s a real incredible inflection point right now in AI, and the fact that your administration is supporting our companies instead of fighting with them — it’s hugely important.” 

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, credited the administration’s policies with enabling a major U.S. investment. “I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we could make a major [$600 billion] investment in the United States and have some key manufacturing here,” Cook said. 

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, praised the government’s role in securing trust in American technology globally. “Everything that you’re doing in terms of setting in place the platform where the rest of the world can not only use our technology, but trust our technology… is perhaps the most important issue.”

Other participants, including OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, echoed support for the administration’s AI agenda and U.S.-centered innovation strategy.

The meeting follows the launch of the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge, announced by the First Lady in August, and comes amid broader efforts to scale national compute capacity, boost semiconductor production, and integrate AI in public and private sectors.

No new policy announcements were made at the event. However, officials confirmed that the White House’s AI Education Task Force, led by the First Lady, will continue coordinating with industry partners on youth education and workforce development.