Art by Clark Miller (photos: Getty Images)How Greg and Anna Brockman Became MAGA Megadonors
The OpenAI co-founder and his wife had avoided the limelight until deciding to seize a presence for themselves in national politics.
In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by President Donald Trump. Soon after the event, the Brockmans posted pictures of themselves posing with Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, and David Sacks, the venture capitalist who’s become Trump’s AI and crypto czar.
It wasn’t the only time in the last few months that the Silicon Valley couple has made splashy appearances in Trump’s orbit. In the fall, they attended two other White House suppers and went to Trump’s revamped Kennedy Center Honors, dining later that evening with one of the honorees, actor Sylvester Stallone. But nothing has more loudly announced their arrival as Trump-friendly figures than their decision to become megadonors: giving $50 million to Leading the Future, a bipartisan super PAC focused on combating state-level AI regulation, and $25 million to MAGA Inc., a Trump super PAC.