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The Department of Municipalities and Transport says two AI proofs of concept are nearing completion as the partnership broadens into urban planning and environmental analysis.
A live Abu Dhabi demonstration connects legal guidance, judicial processes, decision support and institutional leadership in one AI-enabled journey.
The second edition of the UAE Government Media Office’s AI Film Award will be part of the 1 Billion Followers Summit in January 2027.
The one-day event is showcasing cloud and AI use cases for Gulf enterprises, from agentic systems and serverless computing to production operations.
The Economic Times Annual Tech Summit – Middle East is focusing on data, governance, cybersecurity and the organisational work required to move beyond AI pilots.
The Abu Dhabi sovereign investor and AI cloud company will establish a local presence and assess opportunities around compute, open models and regional AI deployment.
The Doha event is examining autonomous systems, financial services, regulation, employment and the infrastructure required for an AI-led economy.
The October Riyadh summit is expected to examine Gulf–European cooperation in cloud, high-performance computing, data centres and digital services, but no joint AI investment has yet been announced.
The UAE and Lebanon have launched a programme focused on generative AI and prompt-engineering skills under the Government Experience Exchange Programme.
Abu Dhabi ranked 11th globally and first in the Middle East, while Dubai ranked 14th in the inaugural AI Cities Index.
Estithmar’s Elegancia C&I will deliver a two-phase facility designed to expand Qatar’s capacity for hyperscale cloud providers and high-density AI workloads.
The framework initially covers the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, with investments in cloud, AI infrastructure, connectivity, cybersecurity and AI for Good.
The inaugural AlEqtisadiah forum will bring business leaders and technology experts together on 5 October to examine how AI is changing economies and business models.
At the Google Cloud Summit Doha, Qatari officials and technology leaders described a shift from AI experimentation toward governed autonomous systems and national workforce preparation.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 extend Qualcomm's flagship mobile platform toward local AI agents and more capable device-side processing.
The venture accelerates commercial autonomous agent deployments for supply chain, healthcare, and sovereign compliance across the Arabian Gulf.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology leverages Shaheen III supercomputer to develop foundation models for genomics, catalysis, and solar engineering.
SAMA establishes new compliance guidelines allowing fintechs to test algorithmic credit scoring and automated Islamic financing contracts.
Chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, the fund cements cornerstone partnerships in leading semiconductor fabrication, frontier labs, and hyperscale data centers.
The partnership deploys computer vision in surgical suites, predictive oncology triage, and federated learning models across specialized hospital campuses.
The new computing facility provides regional machine learning ventures with subsidized GPU compute, technical sandboxes, and enterprise pilot matching.
Under directives from Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, the emirate mandates measurable service automation, predictive maintenance, and paperless administrative workflows.
Abu Dhabi's flagship event venue integrates crowd density tracking, automated energy management, and biometric access controls ahead of major global summits.
The strategic initiative builds high-fidelity Arabic training corpuses for state healthcare, municipal permits, and legislative drafting.
The Doha technology gathering confirms major anchor allocations from QIA, Qatar Development Bank, and international tech funds.
The regional incubator partners with global banks to accelerate automated compliance, fraud intelligence, and Sharia-compliant digital finance.
The Kingdom's premier commercial lender reduces loan approval turnaround times from weeks to minutes using auditable predictive risk models.
The Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications evaluates underwater cooling pods to overcome terrestrial land and thermal constraints.
The Labour Fund covers up to 50 percent of software licensing, cloud compute, and technical integration costs for domestic businesses.
Computer vision algorithms pre-screen thoracic radiographs for tuberculosis, pneumonia, and pulmonary nodules, reducing diagnostic backlog.
Competitive operating costs, 100 percent foreign ownership, and regulatory clarity position the island nation as an attractive software development hub.
The sovereign wealth fund directs international venture commitments toward semiconductors, quantum computing, and sovereign machine learning platforms.
The national committee mandates measurable digitisation milestones across commerce, labor, and municipal public service delivery.
The sovereign financing program provides non-dilutive capital and commercial pilot guarantees for domestic machine learning founders.
TRA establishes dedicated regulatory testing sandboxes across Sohar, Duqm, and Salalah to enable autonomous factory robotics.
The national electricity group utilizes machine learning weather forecasting to stabilize voltage fluctuations from utility-scale solar farms.
The five-year collaboration carries an investment ambition of up to $10 billion, with delivery and utilisation now the measures that matter.
A government partnership with Microsoft combines local data processing and new GPU capacity with a push to build AI-enabled public services.
Qatar's second-generation platform combines language, speech, image and safety systems while publishing evidence about the constraints of Arabic model building.
The framework joins legal compliance, adoption, public awareness and cooperation with a GCC ethics manual for government AI use.
The centre's first disclosed work includes agentic scheduling for drilling rigs, bringing AI experimentation closer to production planning.
An unmanned demonstration between Old Doha Port and Katara showed technical possibility; phased approval and integration remain ahead.
The partnership will combine Saudi infrastructure with Cohere’s enterprise model expertise and explore sovereign Arabic-language AI systems.
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund joined SambaNova’s Series F round as demand grows for enterprise AI computing and inference systems.
The completed expansion adds operational capacity for a global hyperscaler and strengthens Qatar’s position in AI-ready digital infrastructure.
The six-month extension gives the parties more time to complete regulatory, operational and commercial requirements for the proposed joint venture.
The Qatar Investment Authority participated in HyperLight’s Series C financing, adding another photonics investment to Qatar’s AI infrastructure strategy.
A new federal framework aims to convert 50 percent of UAE government sectors, services and operations to agentic AI models within two years.
SDAIA’s membership brings Saudi Arabia into a multilateral forum focused on responsible AI, international cooperation and shared policy practice.
The Saudi energy company and Microsoft will explore AI-driven industrial solutions built on Azure and integrated into core operations.
The non-binding framework could support up to 250MW of AI data-centre capacity and a future investment platform for Saudi infrastructure.
The non-binding framework covers up to 250 megawatts of hyperscale AI data-center capacity in Saudi Arabia and an investment platform for further expansion.
The strategic partnership gives Qatar access to global funds and co-investment opportunities in sectors including artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure.
The January agreement places Qatar inside a US-led cooperation track focused on advanced technology, supply-chain security and resilient digital infrastructure.