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UAE President Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zaeda Al Nahayan (R) welcomes his US counterpart Donald Trump upon arrival at the presidential terminal in Abu -Dabi on May 15, 2025.
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Dubai, united by the Arab Emirates-deep, rich in the Middle East oil deserts, the United Arab Emirates are in the Mission to set up an artificial intelligence.
Seven thousand miles on the planet, the US, led by President Donald Trump, want US firms dominated in the world race.
Although their goals can be divided by continents, their ambitions are amazingly aligned.
Currently, the United States is making the most modern semiconductor chips in the world, while the UAE and the neighboring Gulf countries have a rich, cheap energy required to feed huge AI data centers. Both countries have been allies for half a century, and Abu -Dobby accepted Trump during the US President’s visit this month unprecedented supporters and investment commitments, Many of which were focused on technology and AI.
In the eyes of numerous investors, financial leaders and political forces from the Silicon Valley and Washington to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, constantly involved in the alliance of AI countries, which have already been made hundreds of billion dollars, made in the sky.
“Peoples, rich in energy, join the list of trusted partners as soon as the American data networks that stand on their physical limits,” said CNBC Myron Xie, Semianalysis analyst.
At the same time, “the UAE has access to advanced calculations and talents, helping her pursue her own sovereign goals,” SI said. “The Middle East, tilted with cheap energy and capital, is ready to become the next AI regional center.”
The UAE developments enter the long -term gulf strategy to position yourself as a global leader in II. This, depending on the country’s leadership, will increase geopolitical influence, diversify its economy outside of crude oil and approved as a technological power plant.
The goal for Washington is clear: to provide American companies to run AI with China and distribute US technology worldwide.
A visit in the Middle East Trump in mid-May-in which stops in Riyadh, Doha and Abu Dhabi participated, said more than $ 200 billion in commercial transactions between the US and the UAE. This has led to the total number of investment agreements in the Gulf region, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to more than $ 2 trillion.
As part of the transactions with Abu -Dobby, Openai, Oracle. Nvidia and Cisco Systems announced that would be Help build up the UAE StarGate campus Launch in 2026. The Stargate project is $ 500 billion in the private sector, focused on AI’s investment vehicle announced in January in partnership with the ABU Dhabi MGX and SoftBank Japan.
The companies said the initial 200-mega-cluster AI cluster should be launched in Abu Dhabi next year. And a deal at campus AI mean the UAE has access to many recent Nvidia chips, American technology and software.
This is such an agreement that would face restrictions under the previous US administration, but Trump is allegedly changing the way, approaching the export restrictions.
Its administration plans Cancel the biden era “AI”, which imposed strict control over exports on advanced AI chips even for people supporting the United States. This get rid of these boundaries can open the door for sensitive American technology to be in the hands of competitors such as China is a topic of constant debate among US legislators and security professionals.
“Calculate not rough”
Once, first of all, as a partnership-oriented oil and purchasing weapons, US-rally’s relations are changing, says Mohammed Soliman, a senior employee of the Middle East Institute in Washington.
“Calculate, not rough, will be the main support of the US-Golf relations,” Soliman said. “By moving forward, it will no longer be in energy policy; it is about calculating and how we and the Gulf Persian build an AI ecosystem that is able to serve third markets in the markets.”
Calculation in the context of AI refers to computing resources such as equipment and processing power necessary to train and launch AI models.
“And this is a huge point of dissolution for the relationship (compared to), where we were a few years ago,” said Soliman, speaking at the Sub -East Institute, recorded on May 19.
In particular, the UAE completely argued for the future of AI under the guidance of the US-specially noticeable moment in the context of the US and China contest.
Company Emirati AI G42, which has major partnerships with Openai, Nvidia and MicrosoftTo name a few, they were completely deprived of Chinese companies – including about $ 100 million in Tiktok Bytedance owner – to prevent sanctions by the US Department of Trade and maintain access to Nvidia and other US technologies providing AI applications.
“So far, we are now racing to have the best big linguistic model and ultimately have AGI (artificial general intelligence),” said Baghdad Gerras, an enterprise based on Antler, which invests the funds in the early AI Ventures stage.
AGA is usually referred to artificial intelligence that is smarter than people, although definitions are different.
“For the UAE, if they want to become a leader in the AI race, the first thing they should provide is to calculate. If you do not have a calculation, you will not have a place in terms of AI guide,” said Gerras CNBC.
He added that the UAE “decided to overcome the geo-economic accent from China to the US because they realized that Nvidia is doing the best chips for II today, but the whole network supply chain is mostly in Taiwan.”
However, Gerras noted, China “catching up very quickly, crazy.”
“A huge level of influence”
The development of its own large UAE language model (LLM), Falcon AI, is a major step for the region in the development of II – but it also gives the basis of the country’s geopolitical and economic ambitions in the II market for the next decade.
Such a position would also raise the Emirates diplomatic lever, which allows it to play a more influential role in global technology and policy discussions.
“When these ambitions become a reality, you can see a bay that acts as a region that offers calculation as a service for other developing markets,” said the Soliman Institute of the Middle East.
“Think about the gulf as a place where large language models are located in Swahili, Hindi, in these languages, and they can offer housing data, learning data, conclusions for all these economies because they have an infrastructure,” he added. “So they become their leader of II for new markets.”
“And this is a huge, huge level of impact, a huge level of development,” Soliman emphasized. “Where they used to act as energy manufacturers to become the back of AI-it’s really massively.”
US pushes American II
Part of the US press in the UAE and the wider region is reduced to the desire for US technology to set an advantage on a global scale and push successes in China.
On the one hand, US export curbs have restricted access to companies such as NVIDIA for selling advanced technology in China. He also stopped access to China to promote his own development in areas such as semiconductors and II.
At the same time, Washington opens new markets, such as the Middle East, the largest technology companies.
“This step has a political angle when it is underpining US supply networks, holding back China. It gives the American land in the AI ARMS race, placing the country for further leadership,” David Meyer, Economist Julius Bayer said in the note.
Beijing and Chinese companies are trying to access new markets to push their technologies around the world, especially in areas such as AI. But the United States is working to secure itself in the first place and apply partnerships with governments.
“The race goes to the US-based AI diffusion into every part of the world,” Daniel Newman, CEO of Futurum Group said on Tuesday.
US companies have taken a call. Openai, which concluded a transaction with the UAE last week on construction of AI infrastructure and deployment Chatgpt across the country, positioned itself as a counter -shrink of China and as a business capable of delivering American artificial intelligence to the world.
In February, Openai Chief Openai CEO Bris Lehan told CNBC that the company sees the world with two main models of AI-one-one, led by the Communist Party of China and the American “D” Democratic AI.
“If you are a country and you want to create your own AI ecosystem, your own AI program, you are building developers in your country that will be some version of the future companies, I think you would prefer to see that it is built on the Democratic AI system because it promotes your country that can use this technology for your own purpose.”
– Dylan Bats CNBC contributed to this report.
