Zuckerberg shaped Trump AI pact, drafted with Huang

The document that President Donald Trump released on Tuesday as a 'White House Accord on Super Intelligence' did not originate in the White House. According to a source familiar with the matter, the concept began at last week's state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was seated next to House Speaker Mike Johnson. Zuckerberg raised regulatory concerns about AI with Johnson, then spoke with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about crafting a set of principles that tech executives could bring to their next meeting with Trump.

Zuckerberg circulated a draft ahead of Tuesday's meeting, and Huang helped gather support among the administration's guests, who included executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and others. Trump eventually released the document himself, and both the administration and the attending executives hailed it as a historic concord among rival companies. The account, confirmed by two other sources, points to Zuckerberg's cultivation of Trump having paid off, and suggests his political influence may now stand alongside that of Elon Musk and Huang.

Whether the accord translates into meaningful safety action is less certain. The body notes it is not clear the gesture will quell broad public concerns about safety, so the stakes may hinge on whether the principles lead to concrete follow-through rather than a one-time show of unity. For now, the episode shows how a single executive's relationships can shape the terms of an industry-wide pledge.