Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia's Jensen Huang were among the dozens of CEOs invited to President Trump's state dinner to honor China's Xi Jinping.
The who's who of tech titans joined Wall Street billionaires, cabinet officials, Trump family members, Supreme Court justices and Chinese dignitaries at the White House on Thursday night for a lavish affair.
According to a guest list released by the White House, also at the dinner were Apple's Tim Cook, Tesla & SpaceX's Elon Musk, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Alphabet's Sergey Brin, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Paramount Skydance's David Ellison, Google's Sundar Pichai, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon, TikTok investor Jeff Yass and Dell Technologies' Michael Dell. The presence of America's top tech executives at the dinner underscores their reliance on China's market and resources even as they compete to dominate in technology and artificial intelligence.
Cook, Huang, Musk and Advanced Micro Devices' Lisa Su-top executives of America's biggest tech companies that rely on China's massive market-were seated at the front center table alongside the two leaders and first ladies.
Others in attendance include ExxonMobil's Darren Woods, LVMH's Bernard Arnault, Visa's Ryan McInerey, Mastercard's Michael Miebach, Boeing's Kelly Ortberg, BlackRock's Larry Fink, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, Las Vegas Sands' Dr. Miriam Adelson, Lockheed Martin's Jim Taiclet, GE Aerospace's Larry Culp, Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon, JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, General Motors' Mary Barra, Goldman Sachs' David Solomon and Citi's Jane Fraser.