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🗺️ Who Follows Trump? The New AI-Industrial Map. No one knows who follows Xi or Putin. But who follows Trump is already shaping up.

⚡ Libertarian Techno-Authoritarianism

Thiel – Musk – SpaceX – Tesla – Anduril – Palantir – JD Vance – xAI – (Nvidia as secondary supplier)

Key Figures & Firms

  • 🧠 Peter Thiel: Palantir founder, ideological architect.
  • 🚀 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, xAI; chairs DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).
  • 🎮 Palmer Luckey (Anduril): defense-AI, fastest-growing Pentagon contractor.
  • 🦅 JD Vance: Vice-President.
  • 🛰️ SpaceX + Tesla: industrial and launch monopolies.
  • 📊 Palantir: government data analytics pipeline.
  • 🎮 Nvidia: GPU supplier through defense channels.

Power Levers

  • DOGE charter hard-wired into OMB.
  • Classified defense-AI contracts and launch licenses.

Ideology

  • Shrink the administrative state; let elite engineers build orbital factories, defense shields, and life-extension compounds.

🛰️ AI-Infrastructure Stack (Stargate Coalition)

OpenAI – Oracle – SoftBank – Amazon – Anthropic – (Nvidia as hardware anchor)

Key Figures & Firms

  • 🤖 Sam Altman (OpenAI): architect of the $500B Stargate build-out.
  • 🏢 Larry Ellison (Oracle): Stargate landlord, cloud backbone.
  • 💴 Masayoshi Son (SoftBank): balance-sheet capital, chairman of Stargate.
  • 📦 Amazon (AWS): compute backbone + lobbying muscle.
  • 🌌 Anthropic: “safety-aligned” counterweight bundled into Stargate cloud.
  • 🎮 Nvidia: indispensable GPU supplier anchoring the stack.

Power Levers

  • Control of scarce GPU supply and allocation.
  • Writing the “safety standards” for national AI models.

Ideology

  • Neoliberal globalism wrapped in AI-exceptionalism: open markets, but centralized compute.

💻 Software / Consumer Layer (Legacy Incumbents)

Meta – Google – Microsoft – Apple – liberal policy network

Key Figures & Firms

  • 👓 Mark Zuckerberg (Meta): open weights (Llama-3) to undercut OpenAI.
  • 🔍 Sundar Pichai (Google): integrating Gemini across federal sites.
  • 🖥️ Satya Nadella (Microsoft): OpenAI’s biggest backer while building its own frontier stack.
  • 🍏 Apple: platform gatekeeper, controlling device-level AI rollout.
  • 💸 Liberals: Reid Hoffman, Marc Benioff, Democratic donor class.

Power Levers

  • Consumer data moats (search, social, productivity, devices).
  • Regulatory lobbying (EU AI Act as a de facto standard).

Ideology

  • ESG-flavored techno-progressivism: “aligned,” carbon-neutral, multilateral oversight.
BlocPost-Trump InfluenceMain Leverage
⚡ (Thiel–Musk–Vance)High (~55%)DOGE charter, defense contracts, Vance 2028
🛰️ AI-Infrastructure Stack Medium (~30%)GPU allocation, safety standards, Oracle real estate
💻 Software / Consumer Layer Low (~15%)Consumer scale, lobbying, global cash

💡 In short: the Thiel–Musk bloc is hard-wiring the U.S. state. The Stargate coalition is fighting for the compute rents. The incumbents are left clinging to consumer moats and regulatory lobbying.

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