Trump awards science medals to Musk, Brin, Huang and Su

President Donald Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su on October 8. Satya Nadella and Michael Dell received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at the same summit..

The recipients span major businesses in spaceflight, internet search, semiconductors and enterprise computing. Musk leads SpaceX, Brin co-founded Google, Huang leads Nvidia and Su leads AMD. Nadella is Microsoft's chief executive, and Dell founded Dell Technologies..

The White House cited Musk's engineering work across space and communications, Brin's contributions to search and data processing, and Huang's role in expanding GPU computing. The science medal was first presented in 1963, while the technology award began in 1985. The administration linked the honors to its priorities in AI, nuclear energy, quantum technology and space..

The summit also included pledges of roughly $2.4 billion in AI computing credits and scientific tools for federal research. Those commitments target work including quantum algorithms, automated laboratories and nuclear engineering. They were announced as support for future research, rather than completed scientific results..