OpenAI’s Altman to Attend Trump Dinner With Chinese President

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman is expected to attend a dinner involving Donald Trump and China’s president, Bloomberg reported. The report identifies Altman as an attendee at the gathering, placing a leading artificial-intelligence executive in a high-level political setting.

Altman leads OpenAI, the company behind widely used generative AI products. OpenAI and other AI developers have become increasingly relevant to policy discussions because advanced AI systems raise questions around economic competition, national security, safety and regulation.

The United States and China are major global technology powers, and artificial intelligence is an important area of strategic competition between them. Senior-level interactions involving technology leaders can draw attention because companies developing frontier AI systems operate within that broader geopolitical environment.

Bloomberg’s report did not, in the information provided, specify the dinner’s timing, location or agenda. It also did not describe whether Altman would hold separate discussions with Trump or China’s president.