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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos ’ Amazon plan to donate $ 1 million each to President - elect Donald Trump ’s initiatory fund , harmonize to report fromFoxand TheWall Street Journal .
TechCrunch has confirmed Altman ’s plans to personally place the money , which is not come forthwith from OpenAI .
The donations from the billionaire keep an eye on plans byMark Zuckerberg ’s Meta to also donate $ 1 millionto Trump ’s startup store as America ’s most herculean tech drawing card cozy up to the incoming judicature . Inaugural funds are used for activities related to the president ’s inauguration ceremony in January .
Amazon ’s contribution is being prepared as Bezos , the company ’s executive chairman , heads to Mar - a - Lago to call with Trump next week , the Journal account . Bezos and Trump had a fraught kinship in the past . During his first term , Trump repeatedly criticize Amazon ’s business practice session and attack The Washington Post , which Bezos owns , for being decisive of his government .
This time around , Bezos has made a concerted campaign to bring around those necktie . Bezosblockedthe Post from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president , and has congratulated Trump for his “ over-the-top political comeback ” on X.
Altman , who has n’t faced public unfavorable judgment from Trump yet , tell TechCrunch in a statement : “ President Trump will leave our country into the years of AI , and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead . ”
Silicon Valley mostly expect Trump to be low-cal on AI rule , which they say is necessary for the U.S. to rest private-enterprise on a spheric shell . And while Altman has no known gripe with Trump , the OpenAI founder is in the center of a legal battle with Elon Musk , another close Trump friend , overOpenAI ’s attempts to transitionto a for - profit ship’s company .
