The CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of the United Arab Emirates’ top AI company emphasized that the Gulf nation is a trusted companion to the united state when it concerns maintaining delicate innovation risk-free, as Washington reportedly mulls aesthetics on chip sales to specific nations– especially those in the Middle East.
The UAE has actually revealed it can “guarantee the safety and the security” of chips “if and when they are being deployed and used here,” Peng Xiao, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of UAE AI company G42, informed CNBC at a seminar in Dubai on Tuesday.
His remarks come as the management of President Joe Biden remains to consider limitations on chip sales from Nvidia and AMD to the Middle East, according to Bloomberg, over concerns that American innovation and copyright can wind up in the hands of China.
“I cannot read the mind of the U.S. policymakers, but in many ways, I understand their position,” Xiao informed CNBC.
“At the same time from our side, we’ve shown from the UAE side how transparent we are and how we can guarantee the safety and the security of this technology,” he included.
“So I think the door is opening up for us to do a lot more. I believe we’ll see more and more collaboration, more and more technology sharing, more and more joint development of AI between our two countries.”
The chief executive officer did not clarify even more on what procedures were being required to guarantee the safety of possible chip imports. CNBC has actually called the business for extra information.
The United States has previously warned over G42’s connections to China and its collaborate with business in Beijing, which Washington takes into consideration a feasible safety danger. In February, the group sold its risk in Chinese business consisting of Bytedance in a quote to comfort American companions. Earlier this year, CNBC spoke with G42’s Chief Technology Officer Kiril Evtimov regarding the business’s choice to reduce connections with China, which Evtimov referred to as an industrial and technical choice.
A Nvidia chip showed at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai on June 26, 2024.
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In a substantial nod of authorization for the UAE’s AI aspirations, Microsoft authorized a $1.5 billion sell April with Abu Dhabi’s G42. Last month, UAE President Mohammed container Zayed al Nahyan led a delegation to Washington, that included Xiao and G42Chairman Sheikh Tahnoon
The UAE and united state launched a joint declaration on artificial intelligence cooperation at the time, declaring their shared objective “to advertise collaboration in AI and relevant modern technologies” and to “develop a government-to-government memorandum of understanding on AI between the U.S. and the UAE.”
Describing the visit, Xiao told CNBC that at the “government-to-government level, the relationship bilaterally between [the] U.S. and [the] UAE cannot be stronger.”
Ahead of the late September trip, the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, wrote in a post on X that “Few countries are moving as fast on advanced technologies and artificial intelligence — and as closely in sync with the U.S. — as the UAE.”
The UAE already has investments in the U.S. that total $1 trillion. The country’s huge sovereign wealth funds, which include the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Mubadala, are major investors in American real estate, infrastructure and technology sectors.
Abu Dhabi hopes to expand that partnership through AI. In February, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the UAE could serve as the world’s “regulatory sandbox” to test artificial intelligence.
The UAE is not alone in the region when it comes to AI ambitions. Saudi Arabia is also pushing to get access to the advanced U.S.-made technology — in this case, the Nvidia H200s, the firm’s most powerful chips, which are used in OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
And the kingdom is optimistic — a top official at the Saudi Data and AI Authority, Abdulrahman Tariq Habib, told CNBC in mid-September that he expected to see such a development “within the next year.”
