Trump hosts top tech CEOs at White House; Elon Musk not in attendance

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump hosted tech CEOs for dinner at the White House on Thursday. More than a dozen titans of tech industry, including Apple's Tim Cook, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Facebook's Mark  Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai of Google, attended the event. However, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, once a close aide of Trump, was not in attendance at the high-profile dinner.

While the grand dinner meet saw the participation of prominent leaders of major artificial intelligence and technology firm, Musk's absence hogged the headlines. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who was once considered the closest industry allies, drifted apart with the US President following their public verbal spat over space policy and government contracts.

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Musk, however, claimed that he was invited to the dinner meet but he "unfortunately could not attend". "A representative of mine will be there," he added.

Who all attended dinner meet

Musk's main rival in artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, was present at the event. Among other who were in the guest list include, Google founder Sergey Brin, OpenAI founder Greg Brockman, TIBCO Software chairman Vivek Ranadive, Palantir executive Shyam Sankar, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Blue Origin CEO David Limp, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, and Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.

'A high-IQ group'

Hosting the dinner, Trump called the tech CEO's “brilliant people with a high intelligence quotient" and said they are leading a revolution in business. "The most brilliant people are gathered around this table. This is definitely a high-IQ group, and I’m very proud of them," the US President said.

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“It’s an honour to be here with this group of people. They are leading a revolution in business and in genius, and in every other work you can imagine. There has never been anything like it," he added.