OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining the list of U.S. tech titans donating
to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund, a spokesperson exclusively
told Fox News Digital.
"President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am
eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead," Altman
said in a written statement.
Altman reportedly plans on making a personal commitment of $1 million
to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, as opposed to the gift coming
directly from OpenAI.
The news comes on the heels of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms [1]and
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon both announcing $1 million to the inauguration fund,
in moves that allegedly work to smooth ties with the incoming
commander-in-chief.
[2]TRUMP'S INAUGURAL FUND RECEIVES $1 MILLION DONATION FROM MARK
ZUCKERBERG'S META: REPORT
Bezos will be donating through Amazon, The Wall Street Journal
reported, while Zuckerberg promised the Meta gift while attending
Trump’s Thanksgiving dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach,
Florida.
Sam Altman on Making Money show stage
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will reportedly make a personal donation soon to
President-elect Trump's inauguration. (Getty Images)
Altman, who revolutionized the artificial intelligence industry with
the creation of ChatGPT, told "Fox News Sunday" earlier this month that
[3]he is looking forward to working with the incoming Trump
administration, emphasizing how "super important" it is for the U.S.
and its allies to lead the charge on infrastructure that will support
cutting-edge AI development, especially in the tech race against China.
"AI is a little bit different than other kinds of software in that it
requires massive amounts of infrastructure, power, computer chips, data
centers, and we need to build that here, and we need to be able to have
the best A.I. infrastructure in the world to be able to lead with the
technology and the capabilities," Altman said. "I believe
President-elect Trump will be very good at that."
"[I] look forward to working with [the Trump] administration on it,"
the tech CEO continued. "It does seem to us like this is going to be
very important. It does seem like this will be one of these unusually
important moments in the history of technology. And we very much
believe that the United States and our allies need to lead this."
OpenAI’s leader also spoke with FOX Business’ Charles Payne days later,
expanding on the importance of AI in America’s [4]national security
landscape.
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"This is incredibly high stakes. AI is here," he said, "AI is going to
impact a lot of what we do… The United States has got to lead in AI
innovation. This technology is going to be used by our adversaries.
We’ve got to use it to help defend American troops."
Other tech tycoons who supported Trump throughout his campaign include
Tesla CEO Elon Musk; Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale;
venture capitalist David Sacks; Andreessen Horowitz founders Ben
Horowitz and Marc Andreessen; and cryptocurrency exchange Gemini
co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
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FOX Business’ Stephen Sorace and Nikolas Lanum contributed to this
report.
References
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/amazon-plans-make-1-million-donation-trump-inaugural-fund-bezos-visit-mar-a-lago
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trumps-inaugural-fund-receives-1-million-donation-from-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-report
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-looking-forward-working-trump-admin-says-us-must-build-best-ai-infrastructure
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nippon-steel-pushes-back-national-security-concerns-raised-biden-admin-over-us-steel-purchase
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/apps-products
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