Microsoft said Monday it has secured export licenses to vessel Nvidia chips to the United Arab Emirates successful a determination that could accelerate the Gulf's lofty AI ambitions.
The tech elephantine said it is the archetypal institution nether U.S. President Donald Trump's medication to unafraid specified licenses from the Commerce Department and that the approval, granted successful September, was based connected "updated and stringent exertion safeguards."
The licenses alteration the steadfast to vessel the equivalent of 60,400 additional A100 chips, involving tech darling Nvidia's much precocious GB300 GPUs.
"While the chips are almighty and the numbers are large, much important is their affirmative interaction crossed the UAE," Microsoft said successful a blog post. "We're using these GPUs to supply entree to precocious AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source providers, and Microsoft itself."
Nvidia shares were up 1.97% successful premarket commercialized astatine 7:41 a.m. ET.
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