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The AI transformation company has opened a Masdar City office focused on workforce capability, process redesign and applied AI implementation across the UAE and wider Gulf.
The Economic Times Annual Tech Summit – Middle East is focusing on data, governance, cybersecurity and the organisational work required to move beyond AI pilots.
The Abu Dhabi sovereign investor and AI cloud company will establish a local presence and assess opportunities around compute, open models and regional AI deployment.
The Doha event is examining autonomous systems, financial services, regulation, employment and the infrastructure required for an AI-led economy.
The national human capital program hits a historic milestone, bridging the gap between sovereign infrastructure builds and national workforce technical readiness.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology leverages Shaheen III supercomputer to develop foundation models for genomics, catalysis, and solar engineering.
The world's first graduate AI university expands its academic mandate into undergraduate engineering and dedicated foundation model evaluation.
Abu Dhabi's flagship event venue integrates crowd density tracking, automated energy management, and biometric access controls ahead of major global summits.
The national research hub focuses on climate modeling, desalination optimization, and Arabic dialect speech processing.
The Kingdom's aviation gateway integrates facial recognition and predictive baggage handling to enable contactless, seamless passenger transit.
Researchers at the College of Computing Sciences develop specialized subword tokenizers capturing Gulf colloquial idioms and maritime terminology.
The national committee mandates measurable digitisation milestones across commerce, labor, and municipal public service delivery.
The planned one-gigawatt cluster links sovereign compute, international partnerships and a 200-megawatt first phase expected to come online in 2026.
The five-year collaboration carries an investment ambition of up to $10 billion, with delivery and utilisation now the measures that matter.
A government partnership with Microsoft combines local data processing and new GPU capacity with a push to build AI-enabled public services.
The framework joins legal compliance, adoption, public awareness and cooperation with a GCC ethics manual for government AI use.
The national model arrived alongside an AI Studio and open-data portal, linking Arabic technology with public-sector problem solving and reusable data.
The centre's first disclosed work includes agentic scheduling for drilling rigs, bringing AI experimentation closer to production planning.
The programme will train government and private-sector participants in generative AI, agentic systems, data strategy and AI governance.
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2026 highlighted the power, cooling and energy requirements behind the Gulf’s accelerating AI and data-centre build-out.