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Morning Edition · Monday, September 28, 2026Published at 2:48 AM EDT · New York
Amodei Gets a Private White House Dinner Weeks Before Anthropic's Planned October Listing
The first one-on-one between the president and Anthropic's chief executive comes two days before a broader White House meeting with artificial intelligence chief executives, and while bankers discuss a listing valuation of up to $2 trillion against a revenue run rate above $65 billion.
President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday evening, according to Axios, which first reported the invitation. It is the first one-on-one meeting between the two men. Trump extended the invitation himself after Amodei missed last week's state dinner, which CNBC reports he skipped because of a scheduling conflict while OpenAI's Sam Altman and Google's Sundar Pichai attended. Al Jazeera notes the meeting follows a year of friction between Anthropic and the administration, including talking points circulated by Trump allies last week that emphasized Amodei's association with the effective altruism movement.
The timing matters for capital, not only for protocol. Anthropic filed to go public in June and is aiming at an October listing on the Nasdaq, with bankers and investors discussing a valuation of up to roughly $2 trillion against a private mark near $965 billion, as reported by Fortune. That figure rests on projected 2028 revenue of $190 billion to $200 billion, a multiple that analysts have publicly questioned against an annualized run rate reported above $65 billion at the end of July.
Amodei has been the most explicit frontier lab leader about the financing risk underneath those numbers. He told Fortune earlier this year that committing to $1 trillion a year of compute only works if revenue keeps compounding roughly tenfold, and that being off by a single year, or growing at five times instead of ten, means "you go bankrupt." The quote recirculated on Sunday as the dinner news broke. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are scheduled to meet leading artificial intelligence chief executives at the White House on Tuesday.
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