During a White House dinner on Thursday, billionaire Bill Gates spoke about vaccines, gene editing, and how he and President Donald Trump plan to take such innovations further.
The president and First Lady Melania Trump dined with Gates to their left and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to their right.
Other tech titans were in attendance as well, most notably Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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“The most brilliant people are gathered at this table,” Trump said at the dinner, according to The Wall Street Journal. “This is definitely a high IQ group.”
At one point, Gates said he and Trump had spoken about taking “American innovation” to the next level regarding health and disease.
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