President Donald Trump will host a White House dinner Thursday night with top technology executives, including Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and several other leaders from major AI and tech firms. According to the White House, the dinner will be held on the newly renovated Rose Garden patio, which a spokesperson described as “the hottest place to be in Washington.”

One notable absence from the guest list is Elon Musk, a former Trump ally who once led the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. Musk publicly split with Trump earlier this year. Around the same time, Trump rescinded his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a Musk associate, to lead NASA, later calling Isaacman “totally a Democrat.”

The dinner follows a meeting of the White House’s new Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force, chaired by First Lady Melania Trump. Some of the dinner attendees are also expected to participate in the task force session, which is focused on expanding access to AI education for American students.

In addition to Gates, Cook, and Zuckerberg, other confirmed attendees include Google cofounder Sergey Brin, CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Blue Origin’s David Limp, and Palantir executive Shyam Sankar.

Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance recently denied reports linking him to conversations with Musk about a possible 2028 presidential run. He dismissed the story as “completely fake” and advised Musk to influence politics from within Trump’s Republican Party rather than pursuing a third-party movement like the previously floated “America Party.”