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The checklist of U.S. tech leaders exhibiting assist for President-elect Donald Trump continues to develop, with Sam Altman planning to donate $1 million to his inaugural fund.
The OpenAI chief govt plans to make a private dedication of $1 million to Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee, a spokesperson advised Fox News Digital (FOXA-0.37%) — not on behalf of his synthetic intelligence startup.
“President Trump will lead our nation into the age of AI, and I’m desirous to assist his efforts to make sure America stays forward,” Altman stated in an announcement shared with Fox News Digital and Quartz.
Altman beforehand advised Fox News Sunday that he thinks Trump “shall be superb at” supporting the U.S. and its allies to lead in AI infrastructure amid a race with China, and that he appears ahead to working with the incoming administration.
“AI is just a little bit completely different than other forms of software program in that it requires huge quantities of infrastructure, energy, laptop chips, knowledge facilities, and we have to construct that right here, and we’d like to have the ability to have the most effective AI infrastructure on the planet to have the ability to lead with the know-how and the capabilities,” Altman stated.
Earlier this month, Altman stated he isn’t anxious about his former colleague and AI rival Elon Musk’s function in Trump’s White House. Despite there being “plenty of issues to not like about” Musk, it might go towards his values to harm rivals, Altman stated throughout an interview on the New York Times (NYT-0.36%) DealBook Summit.
“I could turn into improper, however I consider fairly strongly that Elon will do the correct factor and that it might be profoundly un-American to make use of political energy, to the diploma that Elon has it, to harm your rivals and benefit your personal companies,” Altman stated.
Meanwhile, each Meta’s (META-1.68%) Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s (AMZN-0.55%) Jeff Bezos have additionally pledged $1 million every to Trump’s inaugural fund. Unlike Altman, the tech leaders made the donations by their firms.
