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Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Dubai residents to get free ChatGPT Plus subscription, here's how
UAE aims to be a global AI hub Everyone living in Dubai will soon receive free access to ChatGPT Plus, the premium version of OpenAI's AI chatbot. This highly anticipated move is part of a partnership between OpenAI and the UAE government, aimed at positioning the nation as a global leader in artificial intelligence. According to Axios, The free ChatGPT Plus subscription is linked to the Stargate UAE project , a high-powered AI data center being built in Abu Dhabi. The facility will house a one-gigawatt AI computing cluster, with the first 200-megawatt phase expected to be operational by next year. What free ChatGPT Plus means for Dubai residents Dubai residents will gain full access to OpenAI's most advanced AI tools, including faster responses, priority access to new features, and enhanced AI capabilities—without paying the usual $20 monthly fee. The UAE's partnership with OpenAI falls under the company's 'OpenAI for Countries' program, which helps nations develop AI infrastructure while maintaining close ties with the United States. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the initiative as a bold vision, aiming to extend AI benefits to healthcare, education, and clean energy. 'The new partnership includes dual investments: by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn IC Markets Đăng ký Undo A 1GW Stargate UAE cluster in Abu Dhabi with 200MW expected to go live in 2026 UAE investment into U.S. Stargate infrastructure, building on the U.S.-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership(opens in a new window) announced during President Trump's visit last week', said OpenAI. The UAE has also committed to matching its AI investments in the U.S., potentially totaling $20 billion, making it one of the largest AI funding commitments globally. The partnership includes tech giants like Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco, SoftBank, and G42, further solidifying the UAE's role in AI innovation. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Korea Herald
23-05-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
Global Tech Alliance Launches Stargate UAE
ABU DHABI, UAE, May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a historic step forward for artificial intelligence and international collaboration, G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group and Cisco today announced their partnership to build Stargate UAE. Stargate UAE is a next-generation AI infrastructure cluster that will run in the newly established 5-gigawatt UAE–U.S. AI Campus in Abu Dhabi. Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt compute cluster, will be built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle. The collaboration will also include Cisco, offering its zero-trust security and AI-ready connectivity, and SoftBank Group, as well as NVIDIA which will supply the latest NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 systems. The facility will provide best-in-class infrastructure, nation-scale compute, and low latency inferencing to deliver AI that will meet the demands of an increasingly intelligent world. The first 200-megawatt AI cluster is expected to go live in 2026. Stargate UAE creates a foundation for scalable, trusted AI. It will accelerate scientific discovery and drive innovation across industries ranging from healthcare and energy to finance and transportation, fueling future economic growth and national development. The UAE–U.S. AI Campus which will house Stargate UAE was announced last week in Abu Dhabi in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. The endeavor builds on a new framework by the U.S. and UAE governments, the "U.S.-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership," to deepen cooperation and collaboration on AI and advanced technologies developing safe, secure, and responsible AI that delivers long-term benefits for humanity. Under this framework, UAE entities will also expand their investments in digital infrastructure in the U.S., in projects such as Stargate U.S., in line with the recently announced "America First Investment Policy." Spanning 10 square miles, the full UAE–U.S. AI infrastructure campus is the largest such deployment outside of the U.S. It will provide 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity and regional compute resources. The facility will be powered by nuclear, solar, and natural gas to minimize carbon emissions and it will also house a science park driving innovation, talent development, and sustainable compute infrastructure. Peng Xiao, Group CEO of G42, said, "The launch of Stargate UAE is a significant step in the UAE–U.S. AI partnership. As a founding partner, we're proud to work alongside institutions that share our belief in responsible innovation and meaningful global progress. This initiative is about building a bridge - rooted in trust and ambition - that helps bring the benefits of AI to economies, societies, and people around the world." Sam Altman, Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, said, "By establishing the world's first Stargate outside of the U.S. in the UAE, we're transforming a bold vision into reality. This is the first major milestone in our OpenAI for Countries initiative—our effort to work with allies and partners to build AI infrastructure around the world. It's a step toward ensuring some of this era's most important breakthroughs—safer medicines, personalized learning, and modernized energy—can emerge from more places and benefit the world." Larry Ellison, CTO and Chairman of Oracle, said, "Stargate pairs Oracle's AI-optimized cloud with nation-scale sovereign infrastructure. This first-in- the-world platform will enable every UAE government agency and commercial institution to connect their data to the world's most advanced AI models. This landmark deployment sets a new standard for digital sovereignty and demonstrates how nation states can harness the power of the most important technology in the history of humankind." Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said, "AI is the most transformative force of our time. With Stargate UAE, we are building the AI infrastructure to power the country's bold vision – to empower its people, grow its economy, and shape its future." Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, said, "When we unveiled Stargate in the U.S. with OpenAI and Oracle, we set out to build an engine for the next information revolution. Now, the UAE becomes the first nation beyond America to embrace this sovereign AI platform, proving the global nature of this vision. SoftBank is proud to support the UAE's leap forward. Bold investments, trusted partnerships, and national ambition can create a more connected, more joyful and more empowered world." Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO of Cisco, said, "Cisco is proud to join Stargate UAE to advance groundbreaking AI innovation in the UAE and around the world. By embedding our secure AI-optimized networking fabric for this international deployment, we're building smart, secure and energy- efficient networks that will turn intelligence into impact at global scale."
Straits Times
23-05-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
UAE's AI Uuniversity aims to become Stanford of the Gulf
The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. PHOTO: REUTERS UAE's AI Uuniversity aims to become Stanford of the Gulf A few weeks before US President Donald Trump announced plans to lift semiconductor restrictions on the United Arab Emirates, a move with the potential to supercharge the region's AI development, Eric Xing sat in his office in Abu Dhabi and discussed what the future might look like. Mr Xing, a computer scientist who previously taught at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, is president of Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, a six-year-old institution uniquely positioned to shape the coming AI boom. During an interview with Bloomberg, Mr Xing repeatedly mentioned his ambition of making MBZUAI the Stanford of the Gulf, pointing to the California school's role in nurturing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship whose effects have rippled far beyond Silicon Valley. The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world's first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering to their curriculums. With MBZUAI, named after the UAE leader, it is taking things further: the school is aiming to be a feeder for Emirati companies, which now mostly hire engineers from abroad; an incubator for homegrown startups; and an AI research and development arm for the UAE. While the UAE has poured billions into building AI, MBZUAI wants to make the country less dependent on foreign talent and companies. Its role, in Mr Xing's words, is 'train the people who can carry out the work'. Mr Trump may have just given the school a leg up in these ambitions. On his recent trip to the region, the US president framed a potential 'US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership' as a way to strengthen business ties between the two countries, and to solidify the US lead in the field. Under the terms of the agreement, the UAE would be allowed to import 500,000 of the most advanced chips every year between now and 2027, with a fifth set aside for G42, the country's all-purpose AI company. That's a notable break with previous US strategy, said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC. Over the past two decades, as the country has strengthened its ties with China, US administrations responded by restricting UAE access to semiconductors and sensitive technologies. Last year, G42 agreed to divest from China upon entering a partnership with Microsoft. By contrast, this latest proposal does not demand any Emirati concessions on ties with China. Ms Diwan described that as 'a massive win for the UAE's ambitions to become a central hub in the global tech economy'. Just under a fifth of the nearly 400 graduate students at MBZUAI come from the Emirates. The rest mostly hail from China, India, Kazakhstan and Egypt, which increasingly have trouble sending students to study in the US and UK. Backed by full scholarships from the UAE, MBZUAI students can pursue degrees in robotics, computer vision and other fields, with programs in decision science and digital public health launching soon. So far, the school has granted 211 master's degrees and eight doctorates and will welcome its first undergraduate class in the fall. This week, it opened its first US outpost: a research lab in Sunnyvale, near Google's headquarters, focused on advanced AI foundation models. Designed by British architect Norman Foster, the MBZUAI campus is new, sleek and expensive, with students zipping around on electric golf carts and gathering at cafes and communal prayer rooms. Ikboljon Sobirov, a graduate from Uzbekistan, said the university offered 'quite generous' academic and administrative support, including securing him a golden visa for long-term residency in the UAE. Ariana Venegas, a former analytics manager at Uber in Costa Rica, chose to study computer vision at MBZUAI over programs in Europe and Canada, where financial support was less certain. 'I prefer something more stable,' she said. According to MBZUAI, up to 70 per cent of graduates stay in the country. Many end up at G42, as well as TII, a government-funded research institute, and the Emirati defense company Edge. MBZUAI is designed to prepare graduates for the tech workforce. Business accounting and product management classes are required alongside computer science coursework, and Provost Timothy Baldwin has been recruiting rank-and-file engineers from Silicon Valley companies as guest lecturers. According to an internal presentation, MBZUAI hopes to add another 225 faculty members within the next five years. To lure AI talent, the school offers pay packages that are 'more favourable' than those at top-tier schools, said Elizabeth Churchill, who left Google last year to start the human-computer interaction department. She mentioned MBZUAI's interest in breaking with 'dominant' English-language culture as a point of appeal. Two years ago, the institution debuted what it described as 'the world's most advanced Arabic large language model.' Michael Bronstein, the DeepMind Professor of AI at Oxford University, praised the academics that MBZUAI has attracted. He also noted, with admiration, how quickly the university was established, calling it 'probably the best thing that can happen to the region.' At the same time, despite all its resources and promise, there are steep challenges ahead. Compared to 140-year-old Stanford, which has more than 17,000 students and 150 graduate programs, MBZUAI is building everything from scratch, doesn't yet have name recognition, and is reliant on government funding that doesn't come with any permanent guarantees. Some tech practitioners and scholars may also be reluctant to move to the UAE, where it is forbidden to criticise the country's government or leaders and acts of dissent carry a minimum sentence of five years in prison. That is not unique – China, for instance, enforces similar laws– but it does contradict the image that the UAE is trying to present to the world. The country 'doesn't invite criticism,' said Melissa Nisbett, a reader at King's College London who studies cultural politics. 'In fact, it clamps down on it.' Moreover, she added, should research fall outside the boundaries of what's seen as acceptable, that could lead to trouble. 'You think of the world's first AI university as something boundary-pushing and exploratory,' Ms Nisbett said. So far, this hasn't been an issue. Both Mr Baldwin and Ms Churchill described free expression as a 'core value' of the school, rejecting the notion that censorship might be an problem. 'This is a clean slate,' Mr Baldwin said of the MBZUAI approach. 'Are there boundaries?' Ms Churchill said from a roomy campus lounge arrayed, like many places in the country, with portraits of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and his late father, the UAE's founder. 'Yes,' she said, 'but there are everywhere.' BLOOMBERG Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Channel Post MEA
23-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Global Tech Alliance Launches Stargate UAE
G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group and Cisco announced their partnership to build Stargate UAE. Stargate UAE is a next-generation AI infrastructure cluster that will run in the newly established 5-gigawatt UAE–U.S. AI Campus in Abu Dhabi. Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt compute cluster, will be built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle. The collaboration will also include Cisco, offering its zero-trust security and AI-ready connectivity, and SoftBank Group, as well as NVIDIA which will supply the latest NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 systems. The facility will provide best-in-class infrastructure, nation-scale compute, and low latency inferencing to deliver AI that will meet the demands of an increasingly intelligent world. The first 200-megawatt AI cluster is expected to go live in 2026. Stargate UAE creates a foundation for scalable, trusted AI. It will accelerate scientific discovery and drive innovation across industries ranging from healthcare and energy to finance and transportation, fueling future economic growth and national development. The UAE–U.S. AI Campus which will house Stargate UAE was announced last week in Abu Dhabi in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. The endeavor builds on a new framework by the U.S. and UAE governments, the 'U.S.-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership,' to deepen cooperation and collaboration on AI and advanced technologies developing safe, secure, and responsible AI that delivers long-term benefits for humanity. Under this framework, UAE entities will also expand their investments in digital infrastructure in the U.S., in projects such as Stargate U.S., in line with the recently announced 'America First Investment Policy.' Spanning 10 square miles, the full UAE–U.S. AI infrastructure campus is the largest such deployment outside of the U.S. It will provide 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity and regional compute resources. The facility will be powered by nuclear, solar, and natural gas to minimize carbon emissions and it will also house a science park driving innovation, talent development, and sustainable compute infrastructure. Peng Xiao, Group CEO of G42, said, 'The launch of Stargate UAE is a significant step in the UAE–U.S. AI partnership. As a founding partner, we're proud to work alongside institutions that share our belief in responsible innovation and meaningful global progress. This initiative is about building a bridge – rooted in trust and ambition – that helps bring the benefits of AI to economies, societies, and people around the world.' Sam Altman, Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, said, 'By establishing the world's first Stargate outside of the U.S. in the UAE, we're transforming a bold vision into reality. This is the first major milestone in our OpenAI for Countries initiative—our effort to work with allies and partners to build AI infrastructure around the world. It's a step toward ensuring some of this era's most important breakthroughs—safer medicines, personalized learning, and modernized energy—can emerge from more places and benefit the world.' Larry Ellison, CTO and Chairman of Oracle, said, 'Stargate pairs Oracle's AI-optimized cloud with nation-scale sovereign infrastructure. This first-in- the-world platform will enable every UAE government agency and commercial institution to connect their data to the world's most advanced AI models. This landmark deployment sets a new standard for digital sovereignty and demonstrates how nation states can harness the power of the most important technology in the history of humankind.' Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said, 'AI is the most transformative force of our time. With Stargate UAE, we are building the AI infrastructure to power the country's bold vision – to empower its people, grow its economy, and shape its future.' Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, said, 'When we unveiled Stargate in the U.S. with OpenAI and Oracle, we set out to build an engine for the next information revolution. Now, the UAE becomes the first nation beyond America to embrace this sovereign AI platform, proving the global nature of this vision. SoftBank is proud to support the UAE's leap forward. Bold investments, trusted partnerships, and national ambition can create a more connected, more joyful and more empowered world.' Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO of Cisco, said, 'Cisco is proud to join Stargate UAE to advance groundbreaking AI innovation in the UAE and around the world. By embedding our secure AI-optimized networking fabric for this international deployment, we're building smart, secure and energy- efficient networks that will turn intelligence into impact at global scale.' 0 0
TECHx
23-05-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Artificial Intelligence, Stargate Announced by UAE, U.S.
Home » Latest news » UAE, U.S. Announce Stargate AI Infrastructure Project In a major move for artificial intelligence, G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group, and Cisco announced a new partnership. The collaboration will build Stargate UAE, a next-generation AI infrastructure cluster. The AI cluster will be hosted at the new UAE–U.S. AI Campus in Abu Dhabi. This 5-gigawatt facility is the largest AI campus outside the United States. It will power AI innovation using nuclear, solar, and natural gas sources. Stargate UAE will be a 1-gigawatt compute cluster. It will be built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle. Cisco will provide secure, AI-ready connectivity. NVIDIA will supply the latest Grace Blackwell GB300 systems. SoftBank Group is also part of the initiative. This powerful AI infrastructure aims to deliver low latency inferencing and nation-scale compute. It is expected to go live in 2026. The UAE–U.S. AI Campus was revealed last week in Abu Dhabi. It was announced in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. The project supports the new U.S.-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership. This framework promotes collaboration on safe and secure artificial intelligence. It also encourages UAE investment in U.S. digital infrastructure, including the upcoming Stargate U.S. The full campus spans 10 square miles. It will also feature a science park focused on talent development, sustainable infrastructure, and innovation. Peng Xiao, Group CEO of G42, said the project is 'a bridge rooted in trust and ambition.' He added that Stargate UAE will help bring AI benefits to economies and people worldwide. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that this is the first major milestone in its OpenAI for Countries initiative. He emphasized the global potential of AI breakthroughs in medicine, education, and energy. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison noted the platform will enable UAE institutions to connect data to advanced AI models. He called the project a new standard for digital sovereignty. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described AI as the most transformative force of our time. He said Stargate UAE will help shape the country's future. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said the UAE is the first nation beyond the U.S. to adopt this sovereign AI platform. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins added that the project will build smart, secure, and energy-efficient networks. Key Points: Stargate UAE is a 1-gigawatt AI cluster launching in 2026. Hosted at the 5-gigawatt UAE–U.S. AI Campus in Abu Dhabi. Built through a partnership involving G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco, and SoftBank. This initiative marks a historic step in global artificial intelligence collaboration.
