Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to dine one-on-one with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday evening, a tech industry source confirmed to AFP.
The private dinner would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to US media including Axios, which first reported the dinner plan. The meeting comes after months of open conflict between the artificial intelligence startup and the Trump administration.
The invitation comes two days after a federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s decision to classify Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” which prohibits the United States military from using its models. Trump also badmouthed Amodei, saying he was trying to be “a perfect little angel” after the Anthropic chief called for a pause in AI development.
Amodei was absent Thursday at the state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping attended by AI industry leaders, including Amodei rival Sam Altman of OpenAI.
