{"id":188524,"date":"2025-09-28T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188524\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:48:08","slug":"openai-ceo-meets-with-uae-to-promote-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188524\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Meets With UAE to Promote AI Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s CEO has reportedly met with the UAE\u2019s president to discuss the country\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a report<\/a> Saturday (Sept. 27) from Reuters, citing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state news agency.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the talks between Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman focused on boosting cooperation between OpenAI and its counterparts in the UAE, especially in the field of AI research and its practical applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cooperation aligns with the UAE\u2019s ambition to establish an integrated AI ecosystem, supporting the country\u2019s development plans and its drive to build a knowledge-based economy,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n

Reuters noted that the UAE, a major oil producer, is developing one of the largest AI data centers in the world, as well as a new Arabic-language AI model.<\/p>\n

In addition, the UAE has been working to use its strong relationship with the U.S. to gain access to AI technology. The two countries signed an agreement in May that will see the UAE construct one of the biggest AI campuses outside the U.S. in a deal was announced during President Donald Trump\u2019s trip to Abu Dhabi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As PYMNTS wrote earlier this year, both the UAE and Saudi Arabia are racing to build data centers at scale as the countries compete for AI supremacy<\/a> in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of early 2025, Saudi Arabia had existing data center capacity of more than 300 megawatts, which is competitive with UAE\u2019s capacity of more than 250 megawatts, according to ResearchAndMarkets.com<\/a>,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when it comes to future projects, Saudi Arabia blows away the UAE: It has upcoming capacity of 2,200 megawatts while the UAE is expecting about 500 megawatts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, data from the International Institute of Strategic Studies<\/a> (IISS) shows that AI preparedness in the region can vary by quite a lot. Israel is in first place here, followed by UAE and Saudi Arabia. Aside from Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, the remaining countries \u201cdrop off considerably in the rankings,\u201d PYMNTS wrote.<\/p>\n

In other AI news, PYMNTS wrote last week about the launch of the latest version<\/a> of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, and how it fits in with Altman\u2019s vision of developing infrastructure that makes intelligence \u201cabundant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat ambition is being matched by industrial-scale investment, including Nvidia\u2019s planned $100 billion commitment<\/a> to expand OpenAI\u2019s compute capacity, a deal that cements both companies as central players in generative AI,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s CEO has reportedly met with the UAE\u2019s president to discuss the country\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,7258,3,1283,3300,7047,74,11636,3301],"class_list":{"0":"post-188524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-data-centers","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-pymnts-news","15":"tag-sam-altman","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-arab-emirates","18":"tag-whats-hot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}