Who’s Seating Where at Donald Trump’s White House ‘Super Intelligence’ Lunch

US President Donald Trump has offered an unusually revealing glimpse into the power dynamics of the artificial-intelligence industry, posting the seating chart for Tuesday’s White House “Super Intelligence Luncheon.” The chart puts Trump at the center of a table surrounded by many of the people with the greatest influence over the development and deployment of AI, and the arrangement creates several striking clusters.

The most conspicuous grouping is immediately around the president. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sits directly beside Trump, with Elon Musk on the other side. Mark Zuckerberg is one seat farther up, while Vice President JD Vance sits directly across from Trump. That puts the leaders of Nvidia, Tesla/SpaceX/X and Meta in the immediate vicinity of the president, a concentration of companies that collectively span AI chips, computing infrastructure, social platforms and AI models. Donald Trump Confirms Meeting With Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Dismisses AI Risks.

Donald Trump Shares White House ‘Super Intelligence’ Lunch Seating Chart

The chart also puts Dario Amodei of Anthropic near Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Altimeter’s Brad Gerstner, creating another notable AI cluster. Anthropic is one of the companies at the center of the current debate over AI safety and regulation.

Reuters reported that Amodei and other AI executives are meeting Trump as pressure builds on Washington to address the risks of increasingly capable AI systems. The pairing of leading foundation-model architects with telecommunications and semiconductor infrastructure leaders underscores the growing interdependence between algorithmic safety and hardware compute scaling. AI Getting Out of Control? Tech Leaders Brief UN on Global Security Risks of Artificial Intelligence.

On the opposite side of the table, OpenAI President Greg Brockman sits near Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Microsoft is one of OpenAI’s most important commercial partners, making the placement notable even if seating itself does not establish the substance of any conversation.

There is also a clear government-and-technology grouping around Palantir CEO Alex Karp, White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson. The seating chart therefore appears to organize the room around several overlapping centers of power: AI model developers, chip and infrastructure companies, consumer technology platforms, investors and the federal government.

The guest list itself reflects the breadth of the AI economy. In addition to Huang, Amodei, Zuckerberg and Brockman, the gathering includes Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Palantir’s Karp, Microsoft-related leadership and executives from companies including AMD, Micron, ServiceNow and Palo Alto Networks. Reuters reported that the meeting is focused in part on balancing AI innovation with government oversight.

Perhaps the biggest message from the chart is that Trump is treating AI not simply as a technology-sector issue, but as a national economic and strategic issue that brings together Washington’s political leadership with the executives controlling much of the industry’s infrastructure. And the seating makes clear where some of that power is concentrated: chips beside the president, AI labs around the table, platforms nearby and government officials woven directly into the group.

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