Top AI leaders meet with White House officials [Video]

In attendance on the industry side were OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith and Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, according to a readout from the White House.

Alphabet President and Chief Investment Officer Ruth Porat, Meta Chief Operating Officer Javier Olivan, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman also participated in the meeting.

They were joined on the govenrment side by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, as well as several senior White House officials, including White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, national economic adviser Lael Brainard and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. 

The White House convened the meeting to discuss the clean energy, permitting and work force needs for developing the large-scale data centers and power infrastructure required for AI.

Following the roundtable, the administration announced several new initiatives focused on building out data center capacity, including a Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructureand efforts to …