Trump's $600 Billion Silicon Valley Dinner: The Full Guest List

President Trump hosted 33 of Silicon Valley's most powerful figures at the White House on Thursday evening in what was likely the wealthiest private dinner in the building's history — with 13 billionaires in attendance and total investment commitments running into the hundreds of billions of dollars. The event, held in the newly renovated Rose Garden, brought together CEOs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, AMD, Meta, and Figma, alongside venture capitalists, administration officials, and Republican political operatives.

The headline financial moment came when Trump directly asked Mark Zuckerberg how much Meta planned to invest in the U.S. Zuckerberg's answer: $600 billion through 2028. Google CEO Sundar Pichai separately pledged $1 billion to education and job training, with $150 million earmarked for AI-focused grants. Sam Altman used the occasion to thank the administration for its backing of OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate infrastructure project with SoftBank and Oracle — a deal that has also netted OpenAI a $200 million Pentagon contract. Microsoft's Satya Nadella praised Trump for supporting rather than fighting tech companies, framing it as essential to maintaining U.S. technological leadership against global rivals.

The most conspicuous absence was Elon Musk, whose public feud with Trump has grown increasingly acrimonious. Musk claimed on social media he was invited but couldn't attend; early reports suggested he wasn't on the guest list at all. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — named Fortune's Most Powerful Person in Business — also skipped, consistent with his pattern of avoiding large public gatherings in favor of private, one-on-one meetings.

Beyond the marquee names, the guest list revealed the breadth of Trump's tech realignment. Attendees included Figma CEO Dylan Field, whose company went public in 2025 at a $68 billion valuation; Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar; Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, now heading Meta's Superintelligence Labs after a $14.3 billion deal; AMD's Lisa Su; Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra; cybersecurity entrepreneur John Hering; and Groq COO Sunny Madra. Google cofounder Sergey Brin attended alongside his girlfriend, whom Trump singled out by name, calling her his 'wonderful MAGA girlfriend.' White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, a PayPal mafia veteran, was also present in his official capacity.

The dinner followed an AI education summit earlier that day led by First Lady Melania Trump, who chairs the newly formed AI Education Task Force and sat next to Bill Gates during the meal. The event represents a dramatic shift from Silicon Valley's historically adversarial posture toward Trump — a realignment driven by the industry's need for favorable AI regulation, lucrative government contracts, and a competitive edge over China in the global technology race.