Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was set to have a private dinner with President Trump at the White House on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 27, their first one-on-one meeting, according to news reports. Amodei had missed the Xi Jinping state dinner because of a scheduling conflict, and Trump then invited him personally, the reports said. The dinner was to give Amodei direct time with the president two days before Trump was due to meet top AI CEOs at the White House.
Trump confirmed the plan to reporters after returning to Joint Base Andrews on Sunday, saying he was grabbing dinner at 10 p.m. with Amodei. According to a news report, the meal was an appetizer to a Tuesday White House meeting where Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson planned to see top AI CEOs.
A news report called the dinner the first private sit-down after months of rocky relations between Anthropic and the administration. Those included a Pentagon contract dispute earlier this year and a government export-control order that cut off foreign users' access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models from June 12 to June 30. Spokespeople for Anthropic and the White House did not immediately comment.
There is no public account yet of what the two men discussed, and it is not clear whether the personal invitation will lead to lasting policy.
Update (Nov. 10): a news report the next day said the two men had dinner late on Sunday, Sept. 27. Neither side has given a public account of what they discussed.
Correction (Oct. 5): an earlier version named only Anthropic's Mythos model in the June export-control episode. It covered both Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5.