Pichai and Bezos aren’t the only tech leaders trying to smooth over their rocky histories with Trump. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who Trump threatened to put in prison — met for dinner at Mar-a-Lago in November. Meta also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Google and Amazon have not been among Donald Trump’s favorite tech companies. Starting with the Mountain View giant, Trump accused Google’s search engine multiple times of hav

Pichai's comments came after Sorkin read aloud comments from an interview Nadella did earlier this year, in which the Microsoft CEO questioned Google's place in the AI arms race following the search giant's AI product mishaps earlier this year.

Mr Pichai also responded to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's earlier comment that Google should have been the "default winner" in the AI race.