Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the UK on Wednesday. The banquet seating chart included NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook; venture capitalist and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks; Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and OpenAI's Sam Altman, according to the New York Times.
These companies need those infrastructure resources anyway, he said. They're building datacentres all over the world. Maybe they were pushed a bit forward just to meet the timetable with this week's state visit. But it's all one-way traffic. We're a kind of vassal state technologically, we really are. The moment our companies, our tech companies, start developing any scale or ambition, they have to go to California, because we don't have the growth capital here.