The CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ leading artificial intelligence company stressed that the Gulf states are reliable partners for the United States in ensuring the security of sensitive technologies because Washington reportedly being considered Restrictions on chip sales to certain countries, particularly those in the Middle East.
Peng Xiao, CEO of Emirati artificial intelligence company G42, told CNBC at a conference in Dubai on Tuesday that the UAE has shown that “if the chips are deployed and used here,” it can “guarantee the security of the chips.”
His comments come as President Joe Biden’s administration continues to weigh restrictions on chip sales NVIDIA and AMD According to Bloomberg, the United States has invested in the Middle East out of concerns that its technology and intellectual property rights may end up in the hands of China.
“I can’t read the minds of U.S. policymakers, but in many ways, I understand their position,” Xiao told CNBC.
“At the same time, we showed the UAE our transparency and how we ensure the safety of this technology,” he added.
“So I think the door is open for us to be able to do more. I believe we’re going to see more and more collaboration between our two countries, more and more technology sharing, more and more joint development of artificial intelligence. .
The CEO did not elaborate further on what steps were being taken to ensure the security of potential chip imports. CNBC has reached out to the company for more details.
The United States has warned before The G42 has ties to China and its cooperation with Beijing-based companies, which Washington considers could pose a security threat. February, The group sells It holds stakes in Chinese companies such as ByteDance to appease its U.S. partners. Earlier this year, CNBC interviewed G42 Chief Technology Officer Kiril Evtimov about the company’s decision to cut ties with China, which Evtimov said was a business and technology decision.
An Nvidia chip is displayed at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai on June 26, 2024.
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Microsoft signed a $1.5 billion deal with Abu Dhabi’s G42 in April, a major endorsement of the UAE’s artificial intelligence ambitions. Last month, UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan led a delegation to Washington that included Shaw and G42 Chairman Sheikh Tanu.
UAE and US issue joint statement Artificial Intelligence Cooperation At that time, they reaffirmed their joint intention to “promote cooperation in artificial intelligence and related technologies” and “to develop an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on artificial intelligence between the United States and the UAE.”
Describing the visit, Shaw told CNBC, “On a government-to-government level, the bilateral relationship between the United States and the UAE could not be stronger.”
Ahead of his trip in late September, Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to Washington, wrote in a post on .
Total UAE investment in the United States has reached $1 trillion. Huge sovereign wealth funds such as the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Mubadala are major investors in U.S. real estate, infrastructure and technology.
Abu Dhabi hopes to expand this partnership through artificial intelligence. In February this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the UAE could serve as a “regulatory sandbox” for the world to test artificial intelligence.
The UAE is not alone in the region when it comes to its AI ambitions. Saudi Arabia is also pushing for advanced American manufacturing technology—in this case, Nvidia H200s, the company’s most powerful chips, used in OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
The Kingdom is optimistic – Abdulrahman Tariq Habib, a senior official at the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence, told CNBC in mid-September that he Expect to see such a development “within the next year.”
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