The United Arab Emirates is seeking a “marriage” with the US over artificial intelligence as the Gulf state hopes to use its petrochemical wealth to become a global superpower in developing the cutting-edge technology.
The UAE’s AI minister Omar Sultan Al Olama told the Financial Times that a recent deal with Microsoft to acquire a $1.5bn stake in Abu Dhabi’s commercial AI champion G42 was only the start of greater tech collaboration between the two countries.
That deal, which followed months of negotiations between US and UAE officials, led to G42’s promise that it would dump Chinese systems as the US seeks to maintain dominance over AI.