The UAE, G42 and U.S. partners including OpenAI, Oracle and Nvidia have announced a 5-gigawatt AI campus near Abu Dhabi. 5 GW is a planned power-capacity targe…
In October 2017, the UAE launched the UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, part of its Centennial 2071 vision, and named Omar Sultan Al Olama the world's first Mini…
Group 42 (G42) was founded in 2018, chaired by UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan and led by CEO Peng Xiao, with a mission to make AI “a na…
MBZUAI, the world's first graduate-level AI research university, was initiated in October 2019 and licensed in April 2020 — but didn't teach its first graduate students…
G42's Inception released Jais on 30 August 2023, the world's most advanced open-source Arabic LLM, trained on the Condor Galaxy 1 supercomputer with Cerebras and MBZUAI.…
On 16 April 2024, Microsoft announced a $1.5B minority investment in G42, with Brad Smith joining its board. The deal included a first-of-its-kind Intergovernmental Assu…
During President Trump's UAE visit, the 5-GW UAE-U.S. AI Campus was unveiled, followed days later (22 May) by Stargate UAE — a 1-GW compute cluster within it, built by G…
The U.S. approved advanced Nvidia Blackwell-class chip exports to G42 in November 2025 (up to ~35,000 chips). In December, G42 targeted Q3 2026 for completing the first…
Around 1 March 2026, drones or missiles reportedly struck three AWS data centers — two in the UAE, one in Bahrain — forcing them offline and disrupting regional banking…
On 11 September 2026, Reuters reported — citing people familiar with discussions — that the UAE was likely to shift from one 10-sq-mi campus toward a distributed network…
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