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An annotated photo of who attended the tech dinner at the White House.
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An interactive who’s-who of the tech execs at Trump’s White House dinner

The White House invited a gaggle of top founders and tech executives for an intimate dinner at the White House.

A who’s-who of tech executives and AI power players sat side by side at a long table in the White House on Thursday evening to lather President Trump with praise for his leadership on AI.

Billed by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle as “the hottest place to be in Washington, or perhaps the world,” the exclusive dinner was packed with “the most brilliant people,” according to Trump, who said, “This is a high-IQ group.”

Proximity is power, and none of the tech figures were closer to Trump than Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Photos from the dinner showed the two laughing and chumming it up, a remarkable turn of fortune for Zuckerberg, who Trump once famously warned might “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he interfered in the 2024 presidential election.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Trump at the White House (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

Attendees included:

  • Dylan Field, Figma CEO

  • Sunny Madra, Groq president

  • Jason Chang, CSBio CEO

  • Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer

  • Nathalie Dompé

  • Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital CEO

  • David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar

  • Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO

  • President Trump

  • First Lady Melania Trump

  • Bill Gates, Microsoft cofounder

  • Safra Catz, Oracle CEO

  • Gal Tirosh

  • Jamie Siminoff, Ring founder

  • David Limp, Blue Origin CEO

  • Mark Pincus, Zynga cofounder

  • John Hering, Lookout cofounder

  • Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices CEO

  • Meredith O’Rourke

  • Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff

  • Shyam Sankar, Palantir CTO

  • Sergey Brin, Google cofounder

  • Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto

  • Tim Cook, Apple CEO

  • Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

  • Greg Brockman, OpenAI president

  • Anna Brockman

  • Tony Fabrizio

  • Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO

  • Vivek Ranadivé, former TIBCO Software CEO and current CEO of Sacramento Kings

  • Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

  • Sundar Pichai, Google CEO

  • Jared Isaacman, Shift4 CEO

Notable absences

Perhaps more interesting than who was invited to the dinner was who didn’t attend.

Never one to hold a grudge, former “First Buddy” and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X that he was invited, but would send a representative. It’s unclear if the Musk/Trump beef is heating up again.

Also absent was a representative from the company that is powering all of the AI that everyone was gushing about and recently struck a remarkably unusual trade deal with the White House: Nvidia. CEO Jensen Huang was notably missing from the gathering, but maybe he prefers one-on-one dinners at Mar-a-lago.

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