OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman will donate $1mn of his personal money to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, the company confirmed on Friday, the latest in a series of gifts from Big Tech and Silicon Valley to show their support for the US president-elect.
The move comes just days after Amazon and Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced their own $1mn donations to the Trump fund. Perplexity, an AI-driven search engine, also confirmed it had donated $1mn to the fund on Friday, as first reported by Bloomberg.
Tech companies have rushed to congratulate Trump following his election victory in November as they seek to build relationships with the Republican before he takes office next year.