uaes strategic move launches stargate uae with global tech alliances including openai
OpenAI has entered into a strategic relationship with the UAE government in launching ‘Stargate UAE’, an Artificial Intelligence infrastructure cluster. A global alliance formed with UAE as the hub for an AI company spearheaded by Donald Trump’s visit to the country earlier in the month, now confirmed by OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, Cisco and Nvidia.
With an investment pool of $500Billion in the coming years, the global tech companies will be forming a collaboration with UAE’s homegrown champion A42 and announced the Stargate UAE launch in a statement. The company will be hubbed in Abu Dhabi.
Confirming its collaboration with the UAE based AI company A42, OpenAI released a statement about their new global initiative ‘OpenAI for countries’ – a sovereign AI project capability in coordination with the US.
“Stargate represents our long-term vision for building frontier-scale compute capacity around the world in service of safe, secure, and broadly beneficial AGI”, read the OpenAI Statement. It was also revealed that the initiative will benefit allies of the USA to get access to transformative AI responsibly and securely.
The 1 Gigawatt AI infrastructure cluster will be built by UAE’s G42 and will be operated by OpenAI and Oracle. Cisco will also collaborate providing its zero- trust security and AI ready connectivity while Japan’s Softbank and Nvidia providing the latest high power chips and the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, reports Reuters.
In OpenAI’s separate statement it was revealed that Stargate will have the capability to provide AI infrastructure and computing capacity within a 2000 mile radius, reaching up to half of the world’s population.
After Donald Trump took office and dismissed Biden’s AI Diffusion rules, UAE was the first country to strike a deal with Washington in a breakthrough agreement. Even the Stargate UAE initiative was built on UAE’s unprecedented investments in US’s AI infrastructure and the former’s commitment in investing $1.4 Trillion in the US soil, sprouting job creation, surging and contributing economic growth and strengthening technological ties between the long term collaborators.
Peng Xiao, the Group CEO of A42 said, “The launch of Stargate UAE is a significant step in the UAE–U.S. AI partnership” regarding working with UAE and USA in providing support for the Stargate project.
“By establishing the world’s first Stargate outside of the U.S. in the UAE, we’re transforming a bold vision into reality”, said Sam Altman, CEO and Co- Founder of OpenAI who also added, “It’s a step toward ensuring some of this era’s most important breakthroughs—safer medicines, personalized learning, and modernized energy—can emerge from more places and benefit the world.”
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