{"id":21840,"date":"2025-02-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2025-02-08T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:26:54","slug":"how-sam-altman-sidestepped-elon-musk-to-win-over-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21840","title":{"rendered":"How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country\u2019s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.<\/p>\n

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At President Trump\u2019s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda.<\/p>\n

But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an announcement that would outflank Mr. Musk and put Mr. Altman\u2019s company at the center of the new administration\u2019s agenda for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

On the 25-minute call, Mr. Altman appealed to Mr. Trump\u2019s love of a big story and of a big deal. Mr. Altman told the president-elect that the tech industry would achieve artificial general intelligence \u2014 the hypothetical moment when technology matches human intelligence \u2014 during the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the call. And to get there before competitors from China, OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank had completed a $100 billion deal to build data centers across the country.<\/p>\n

The day after the inauguration, Mr. Altman stood behind Mr. Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House as Mr. Trump announced the deal<\/a>, called Stargate, and described it as the \u201clargest A.I. infrastructure project by far in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stargate had been in the works for months, but Mr. Altman and his partners timed the announcement to allow Mr. Trump to take credit for it in his first days in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t be able to do this without you, Mr. President,\u201d Mr. Altman said in front of a gathering of reporters.<\/p>\n

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After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country\u2019s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.At President Trump\u2019s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda.But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an announcement that would outflank Mr. Musk and put Mr. Altman\u2019s company at the center of the new administration\u2019s agenda for artificial intelligence.On the 25-minute call, Mr. Altman appealed to Mr. Trump\u2019s love of a big story and of a big deal. Mr. Altman told the president-elect that the tech industry would achieve artificial general intelligence \u2014 the hypothetical moment when technology matches human intelligence \u2014 during the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the call. And to get there before competitors from China, OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank had completed a $100 billion deal to build data centers across the country.The day after the inauguration, Mr. Altman stood behind Mr. Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House as Mr. Trump announced the deal, called Stargate, and described it as the \u201clargest A.I. infrastructure project by far in history.\u201dStargate had been in the works for months, but Mr. Altman and his partners timed the announcement to allow Mr. Trump to take credit for it in his first days in office.\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t be able to do this without you, Mr. President,\u201d Mr. Altman said in front of a gathering of reporters.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21842,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21843,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/21843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}