President Donald Trump has positioned the United States to lead in the global AI race.
President Donald Trump has positioned the United States to lead in the global AI race, championing a vision that promises to reshape our economy, national security, and technological future. Last month, the president declared « we’re leading » in AI, and announced over $90 billion in related infrastructure and energy investments, outlining an AI Action Plan to ensure America holds on to that lead.
Trump’s leadership has signaled America’s determination to outpace Chinese competitors, and sparked unprecedented private-sector investment. However, the scale of the president’s transformative vision also presents formidable challenges, including complex global supply chains and potential semiconductor tariffs. While the United States has the initiative and the momentum on its side, we should avoid enacting policies that slow or jeopardize our progress.
In his second term, Trump has demonstrated his ability to rally industry giants to pour billions of dollars in critical AI investment into the U.S. economy. Through the Stargate project, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle have committed over half a trillion dollars to build data centers across the United States and create the infrastructure needed to power the next generation of AI. Following Trump’s call to make the United States the « world capital » of AI, companies like Amazon, Google, Nvidia, and Meta announced significant investments of their own.
