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The UAE can guarantee the ‘safety and the security’ of U.S.-made chips, G42 CEO says

UAE has shown it can 'guarantee the safety and the security' of chips, G42 CEO says

The CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ premier AI company stressed out that the Gulf nation is a significance spouse to the U.S. in the case of maintaining delicate era barricade, as Washington reportedly mulls curbs on chip gross sales to sure nations — specifically the ones within the Heart East.

The UAE has proven it could “guarantee the safety and the security” of chips “if and when they are being deployed and used here,” Peng Xiao, CEO of UAE AI company G42, informed GWN at a convention in Dubai on Tuesday.

His feedback come because the management of President Joe Biden continues to weigh limits on chip gross sales from Nvidia and AMD to the Heart East, consistent with Bloomberg, over fears that American era and highbrow detail may finally end up within the fingers of China.

“I cannot read the mind of the U.S. policymakers, but in many ways, I understand their position,” Xiao informed GWN.

“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 added.

“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 CEO didn’t elaborate additional on what measures had been being taken to assure the protection of attainable chip imports. GWN has contacted the corporate for spare main points.

The US has up to now warned over G42’s ties to China and its paintings with firms in Beijing, which Washington considers a conceivable safety ultimatum. In February, the crowd bought its stake in Chinese language firms together with Bytedance in a bid to reassure American companions. Previous this age, GWN told to G42’s Eminent Generation Officer Kiril Evtimov in regards to the corporate’s choice to snip ties with China, which Evtimov described as a business and technological choice. 

A Nvidia chip displayed on the Cell Global Congress in Shanghai on June 26, 2024.

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In a vital nod of commendation for the UAE’s AI ambitions, Microsoft signed a $1.5 billion trade in in April with Abu Dhabi’s G42. Endmost future, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan led a delegation to Washington, which integrated Xiao and G42 Chairman Sheikh Tahnoon. 

The UAE and U.S. excepted a joint commentary on synthetic perception cooperation on the date, reaffirming their shared goal “to advertise cooperation in AI and matching applied sciences” and to “develop a government-to-government memorandum of understanding on AI between the U.S. and the UAE.”

Describing the visit, Xiao told GWN 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 GWN in mid-September that he expected to see such a development “within the next year.”

Saudi Arabia expects to get access to Nvidia's high performance chips "within the next year"

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