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UAE leads global generative AI adoption ranking as use spreads across public life
New Microsoft data places the UAE well above the global average for generative AI use, with adoption extending across government, education and workplaces.
UAE and Lebanon launch initiative to train one million AI experts
The UAE and Lebanon have launched a programme focused on generative AI and prompt-engineering skills under the Government Experience Exchange Programme.
First Abu Dhabi Bank and Presight pioneer sovereign multi-agent systems for GCC banking
The UAE's largest financial institution partners with G42's Presight and Microsoft to transition from conversational copilots into autonomous transactional workflows.
Saudi Aramco scales Metabrain generative AI platform across upstream oil and gas operations
The national energy titan integrates 7 Terabytes of subsurface data into a proprietary foundation model driving reservoir simulation and predictive maintenance.
SDAIA deploys ALLAM 34B Arabic foundation model across 30 Saudi government ministries
The sovereign model powers automated legislative drafting, citizen query routing, and internal administrative search across state agencies.
Qatar Airways deploys generative AI and predictive analytics to optimize global flight operations
The national carrier integrates real-time crew scheduling, predictive maintenance, and conversational multilingual passenger concierges.
Microsoft accelerates dedicated Kuwait Azure AI Region with mandatory in-country data residency
The sovereign cloud infrastructure allows state ministries and energy conglomerates to execute large model inference within national borders.
Qatar brings Azure OpenAI service into its local cloud region
A government partnership with Microsoft combines local data processing and new GPU capacity with a push to build AI-enabled public services.
Fanar 2.0 reframes Arabic AI as a full sovereign stack
Qatar's second-generation platform combines language, speech, image and safety systems while publishing evidence about the constraints of Arabic model building.
UAE opens seventh cohort of national AI programme with agentic AI focus
The programme will train government and private-sector participants in generative AI, agentic systems, data strategy and AI governance.