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Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg join a $2.2 trillion guest list for Trump-Xi dinner

Topline President Donald Trump hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a state dinner Thursday night, where theyll be joined by billionaire tech moguls collectively worth trillions of dollars amid a backdrop of warnings about AI potentially threatening human civilization. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House on Sept. 4 2025. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Key Facts Trump said he and Xi had a great meeting Thursday, which took place behind closed doors, but was expected to touch on AI, trade and tariffs as the U.S. and China have maintained tariffs against each other despite agreements that reduced the levies last year. The White House is holding a state dinner this evening featuring both presidents and several billionaire leaders of the worlds most valuable tech companies, several of whom are among the wealthiest people in the world. Elon Musk , whose estimated net worth of $927.9 billion makes him the wealthiest person in the world by a massive magnitude, will reportedly attend. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos , whose $369.3 billion fortune ranks as the largest behind Musks, will be at the dinner, as will worlds fifth-wealthiest person: Michael Dell ($265.4 billion). Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ($266.4 billion) will attend the dinner alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ($194.5 billion) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ($1.4 billion), according to Bloomberg , which noted Apple executive chairman and ex-CEO Tim Cook ($3.1 billion) will attend as well. Google co-founder Sergey Brin ($258.5 billion) was also included on a list of invited guests sent to media shortly before the dinner began, along with Jeff Yass ($77.8 billion), whose Susquehanna International Group holds a substantial stake in ByteDance. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ($3.3 billion) and president Greg Brockman ($25.5 billion) will be at the dinner, CNBC and Bloomberg reported, as will Google CEO Sundar Pichai ($1.6 billion). surprising fact Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei ($15.5 billion), who urged top AI firms to slow down their model development, did not appear on the guest list the White House sent to media. Altman and Musk swiftly joined Amodeis calls earlier this month for slowing the pace of frontier AI development. NEWS PEG Thursdays dinner will be hosted after a senior researcher at Anthropic warned of a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade, provoking Amodeis call for a slowdown. Big Number Over $2.4 trillion. That is the cumulative net worth of the tech moguls who will attend or are expected to attend the White House state dinner Thursday. Musk accounts for nearly 40% of that sum. WHAT OTHER BUSINESS LEADERS WILL ATTEND THE STATE DINNER? LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault ($122.8 billion), Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman ($41.8 billion), casino magnate Miriam Adelson ($31.3 billion) and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ($3.1 billion) were also invited, according to the White House. Key Background Jacob Coxon, who resigned as an Anthropic researcher early this month and previously worked for OpenAI, said in a tweet some AI companies were racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. Coxon warned of superhuman systems that can hack anything but noted he was optimistic for AI companies to coordinate on safety. Days later, Amodei called for a slowdown on AI development, with both Altman and Musk echoing his warning to pace the frontier. Amodei identified some risks including the loss of control over infrastructure, cyberattacks, bioterrorism, economic disruption and takeover of the internet by autonomous AI agents. Trump, meanwhile, has doubled down on his support for AI development and said his administration will not hinder or stifle the AI industry despite warnings from experts. Trump has pushed for AI growth to continue at top speed, framing it as a race the U.S. must win against China. Further Reading Billionaire Anthropic CEO Urges Competitors To Slow Down AI Development (Forbes) Anthropic Researcher Warns Theres >10% Chance AI Could Kill All Humans By Next Decade (Forbes) This article was originally published on Forbes.com This article originally appeared on Forbes at https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/09/22/tech-moguls-worth-combined-22-trillion-attending-trump-xi-dinner-see-whos-going/