Mubadala Investment Company and Together AI have announced a strategic partnership to explore artificial intelligence infrastructure and ecosystem opportunities in the United Arab Emirates. Together AI will establish a presence in Abu Dhabi, bringing inference, research and an open-source model platform closer to developers and enterprises in the UAE and the wider region.
The partnership is significant because it connects sovereign investment with the operating layer required to build and run AI systems. Together AI describes its platform as an AI-native cloud for inference, model shaping and accelerated compute. Its role in the UAE is expected to include support for developers and organisations working with open and custom models, although the announcement does not specify the amount of new compute, GPU capacity or data-centre footprint that will be created.
Mubadala said the collaboration will identify strategic opportunities that support the development and deployment of AI in the UAE. It follows the sovereign investor’s participation in Together AI’s $100 million Series C financing round, announced in July. The new agreement therefore extends an investment relationship into a potential local operating presence.
The distinction between a partnership and a committed infrastructure project is important. The announcement does not name a confirmed facility, customer deployment, power requirement, financing package or delivery timetable. The immediate commitment is Together AI’s Abu Dhabi presence and a joint process to identify opportunities. The eventual impact will depend on whether that process produces deployable capacity, local technical jobs, research partnerships and measurable access for regional users.
The move fits Abu Dhabi’s broader effort to build capability across the AI value chain, from capital and compute to models, applications and talent. Open-source infrastructure is strategically relevant because it gives developers more control over model selection, customisation and deployment than a closed single-provider approach.
For the Gulf, the next evidence to watch is operational: office and team formation, named infrastructure partners, customer workloads, training or research commitments and any disclosed compute expansion. Until those details emerge, this is best understood as a high-impact ecosystem and infrastructure partnership with clear strategic intent but no quantified deployment yet.
