Trump Confirms Date For Visit From China’s Xi To Talk Ai: ‘biggest Thing Anybody’s Ever Seen’

President Donald Trump connected Thursday said Chinese leader Xi Jinping would beryllium successful Washington connected Sept. 24 for a state visit during which artificial intelligence would return up a important information of their agenda.

Trump confirmed nan day for nan sojourn during an arena astatine nan Environmental Protection Agency alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright and different panelists who’d travel location to talk nan administration's efforts to support energy costs down amid sky-high request from AI information centers.

He called nan burgeoning AI assemblage “the biggest point anybody’s ever seen” and claimed nan U.S. is “leading China” successful nan title to create Artificial Generalized Intelligence.

“We want to support it that way. President Xi is coming complete connected September 24th, and we talked astir it erstwhile I was complete successful Beijing, and we'll beryllium talking astir it again,” he said.

The Sept. 24 authorities sojourn was first floated successful May erstwhile Trump formally invited nan Chinese leader during his ain authorities sojourn to Beijing.

The president had extended nan invitation during a lavish banquet astatine nan Great Hall of nan People astatine which he hailed the “special relationship” between nan United States and China and said he’d had “extremely affirmative and productive talks” pinch Xi.

At nan time, he recounted really nan Sino-American narration dates backmost to nan clip of nan American Revolution and said nan connections formed past person “grown into 1 of nan astir consequential relationships successful world history.”

He added: “Tonight, it is my grant to widen an invitation to you and Madam Peng to sojourn america astatine nan White House this September 24, and we look guardant to it.”

Xi’s September travel to Washington will make him nan 2nd world leader Trump has hosted for a authorities sojourn this twelvemonth pursuing King Charles III’s sojourn to Washington past month. It will beryllium nan Chinese leader’s first sojourn to nan White House successful much than a decade, coming almost precisely 11 years to nan time then-president Barack Obama hosted him and his woman for a authorities visit.

The authorities sojourn will see a invited ceremonial connected nan White House’s South Lawn, which is presently undergoing repairs aft it played big to a Ultimate Fighting Championship arena successful June.

Workers needed weeks to dismantle nan monolithic lighting truss that had been erected to some illuminate and shelter nan seating and fighting aboveground for nan televised combat sports event, pinch aerial photographs showing harm to nan writer near successful nan structure’s wake.

The White House is besides moving to decorativeness building connected a helipad that will service arsenic a landing tract for caller statesmanlike carrier helicopters that person been successful testing for astir a decade.

Known arsenic nan VH-92 Patriot, nan Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin craft has not been utilized to carrier nan president to aliases from nan White House because its engines person a inclination to pain nan writer it lands on.

White House officials person said nan helipad task is being paid for by Sikorsky.