Forbes May 20, 2025
When a U.S. president lands in Riyadh flanked not by generals or oil executives, but by some of the most powerful tech leaders in the world, it’s not out of place to consider it as something deeper than diplomacy. On May 13, President Donald Trump stepped off the plane in Saudi Arabia accompanied by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, AMD’s Lisa Su and Tesla’s Elon Musk. Beyond being a resplendent spectacle of commerce, it was a declaration that the next frontier of geopolitical power would be built on artificial intelligence.
At the center of this message was a single number: $600 billion — the scale of investment commitments to be exchanged between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, spanning...
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