Elon Musk and Sam Altman under managing directors at the Trump-Saudi lunch

To President Trump and Top -us and Saudi officers for lunch on Tuesday in Riyadh, dozens of business leaders from some of the largest companies in America.

The managers from technology companies, banks, consumer groups and other industries, including representatives of four of the ten largest US companies after market value-are there to be able for business from profound Saudi investors, companies and government departments. Your companies also have to deal with the tariffs imposed by Mr. Trump for US trading partners. The trip is therefore an opportunity to lobby the officials of Trump, as Finance Minister Scott Bessent, and the Commercial Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Saudi Arabia has developed into one of the world's largest investors in artificial intelligence that endeavors to diversify the economy of the oil-rich nation and to have an impact on one of the hottest sectors in the business world. Remarkable AI players at lunch are Sam Altman, the managing director of Chatgpt Parent Openaai; Jensen Huang, the leader of the advanced chipmaker Nvidia; Ruth Porat, the Chief Investment Officer from Alphabet, the parent company of Google; And Andy Jassy, ​​the head of Amazon, an important provider of cloud computing services.

There is also Elon Musk, who, in addition to Mr. Trump's efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, also runs Tesla, SpaceX and his own AI company called XAI, which is in discussions about new financing that the company could appreciate with up to $ 120 billion.

The enormous sums of money that Saudi Arabia spent on technology, infrastructure and other priorities have made the country a popular destination for financial managers who want to advise the kingdom and its companies. The top finance leaders at lunch include Stephen Schwarzman from Blackstone, Larry Fink from Blackrock and Jane Fraser from Citigroup.

Here are some of the managers and other guests at lunch, as can be seen from a list of the White House:

• Elon Musk, Managing Director of Tesla and SpaceX

• Stephen A. Schwarzman, Managing Director of Blackstone Group

• Larry Fink, Managing Director of Blackrock

• Arvind Krishna, Chairman and Managing Director of IBM

• Jane Fraser, Managing Director of Citigroup

• Kelly Ortberg, Managing Director of Boeing

• Ruth Porat, Chief Investment Officer from Google

• Andy Jassy, ​​Managing Director of Amazon

• Sam Altman, Managing Director of Openaai

• Jensen Huang, Managing Director of Nvidia

• Alex Karp, managing director of Palantir

• Jeff Miller, Managing Director of Halliburton

• Travis Kalanick, former managing director of Uber and founder of Cloud Kitchens

• Kathy Warden, Managing Director of Northrop Grumman

• James Quincey, Managing Director of Coca-Cola

• Dara Khosrowshahi, Managing Director of Uber

• Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami

• Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman from LinkedIn

• Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA

• Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive Chairman from Immunity Bio and owner of Los Angeles Times