Recently, globally renowned chip manufacturers TSMC and Samsung have been actively discussing plans to build a large semiconductor factory in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is reported that this project may involve multiple factories, with a total investment exceeding $100 billion, funded by the UAE, while the United States will oversee the operations of the factories. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjourney. Additionally, Samsung is also considering the establishment of new chip factories in the UAE in the coming years.

Recently, reports have emerged that the UAE's sovereign investment company MGX is considering participating in a multi-billion dollar financing round for OpenAI. According to The Wall Street Journal, MGX has not yet determined the specific amount of its investment, while OpenAI is seeking to raise $6.5 billion and increase the company's valuation to $150 billion. This financing plan has the support of venture capital firm Thrive Capital, and Microsoft may also be involved, given its engagement since 2019.

MoE Technology has announced the open-source release of its independently developed audio understanding large model, MooER, which is the first large-scale open-source speech model trained and inferred on domestically produced full-featured GPUs. MooER was trained on a large-scale audio dataset in just 38 hours on the MoE KuaE Intelligence Computing Platform, demonstrating excellent performance in Chinese and English speech recognition, as well as Chinese-to-English speech translation, achieving an impressive BLEU score of 25.2 in the Covost2 Chinese-to-English test set, nearing industrial-grade effectiveness. MoE Technology plans to further open-source the training code.

The UAE government intervened to cancel a meeting between US congressional staff and local AI company G42, amid growing concerns among US lawmakers about potential technology transfers to China. The cancellation, prompted by the UAE ambassador to the US, has raised doubts about the US Congress's plans to meet with UAE officials regarding China issues. Congress is particularly concerned about G42's $1.5 billion investment with Microsoft, fearing s....

Dubai is increasingly becoming a new global hub for artificial intelligence. To further solidify this leading position, the postmodern Gulf city ambitiously launched the 'Million AI Prompt Engineers' training program, aiming to provide artificial intelligence prompt engineering training for one million people over the next three years, making it the world's first large-scale prompt engineering training initiative.

Nearly half of UAE students believe that artificial intelligence will completely transform education. Students in the UAE are积极 adopting AI technology, believing it will play an important role in future learning. UAE students use generative AI tools more frequently than those in other countries. They believe that AI will enhance teaching and learning methods, improving personalized learning experiences.

According to executives from PwC in the Middle East, the UAE is spearheading enthusiasm for generative AI among the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The UAE government actively supports the development of generative AI, attracting global attention and emphasizing its potential to enhance work efficiency and transformation. The business sector is also following the government's lead, adopting strategies of learning, testing, and creation to fully leverage the potential of generative AI. The UAE has launched key generative AI models, signaling its intention to become a global leader in this field.

UAE Tech Group G42 has partnered with Cerebras Systems to launch Jais, an open source Arabic AI model that supports generative AI applications. Jais is a large language model with 13 billion parameters, trained on Arabic and English data. Jais will be available under an open source license, promoting the development of Arabic resources and advancing AI in the Arab world.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are buying NVIDIA chips to build artificial intelligence software. Saudi Arabia has already purchased at least 3,000 NVIDIA H100 chips. The UAE has developed its own open-source large language model at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi.