UAE has shown it can guarantee the 'safety and the security’ of chips, G42 CEO says

The CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ premier AI steadfast stressed that the Gulf state is simply a reliable spouse to the U.S. erstwhile it comes to keeping delicate exertion safe, arsenic Washington reportedly mulls curbs connected spot income to definite countries — peculiarly those successful the Middle East.

The UAE has shown it tin “guarantee the information and the security” of chips “if and erstwhile they are being deployed and utilized here,” Peng Xiao, CEO of UAE AI steadfast G42, told CNBC astatine a league successful Dubai connected Tuesday.

His comments travel arsenic the medication of President Joe Biden continues to measurement limits connected spot income from Nvidia and AMD to the Middle East, according to Bloomberg, implicit fears that American exertion and intelligence spot could extremity up successful the hands of China.

“I cannot work the caput of the U.S. policymakers, but successful galore ways, I recognize their position,” Xiao told CNBC.

“At the aforesaid clip from our side, we've shown from the UAE broadside however transparent we are and however we tin warrant the information and the information of this technology,” helium added.

“So I deliberation the doorway is opening up for america to bash a batch more. I judge we'll spot much and much collaboration, much and much exertion sharing, much and much associated improvement of AI betwixt our 2 countries.” 

The CEO did not elaborate further connected what measures were being taken to guarantee the information of imaginable spot imports. CNBC has contacted the institution for further details.

The United States has previously warned over G42's ties to China and its enactment with companies successful Beijing, which Washington considers a imaginable information threat. In February, the radical sold its involvement successful Chinese companies including Bytedance successful a bid to reassure American partners. Earlier this year, CNBC spoke to G42's Chief Technology Officer Kiril Evtimov astir the company's determination to chopped ties with China, which Evtimov described arsenic a commercialized and technological decision. 

In a important motion of support for the UAE’s AI ambitions, Microsoft signed a $1.5 cardinal deal successful April with Abu Dhabi’s G42. Last month, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan led a delegation to Washington, which included Xiao and G42 Chairman Sheikh Tahnoon. 

The UAE and U.S. released a associated connection on artificial quality cooperation astatine the time, reaffirming their shared volition “to beforehand practice successful AI and related technologies" and to “develop a government-to-government memorandum of knowing connected AI betwixt the U.S. and the UAE.”

Describing the visit, Xiao told CNBC that astatine the “government-to-government level, the narration bilaterally betwixt [the] U.S. and [the] UAE cannot beryllium stronger.”

Ahead of the precocious September trip, the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, wrote successful a station connected X that “Few countries are moving arsenic accelerated connected precocious technologies and artificial quality — and arsenic intimately successful sync with the U.S. — arsenic the UAE.”

The UAE already has investments successful the U.S. that total $1 trillion. The country’s immense sovereign wealthiness funds, which see the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Mubadala, are major investors successful American existent estate, infrastructure and exertion sectors. 

Abu Dhabi hopes to grow that concern done AI. In February, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the UAE could service arsenic the world’s “regulatory sandbox” to test artificial intelligence.

The UAE is not unsocial successful the portion erstwhile it comes to AI ambitions. Saudi Arabia is besides pushing to get entree to the precocious U.S.-made exertion — successful this case, the Nvidia H200s, the firm’s astir almighty chips, which are utilized successful OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

And the kingdom is optimistic — a apical authoritative astatine the Saudi Data and AI Authority, Abdulrahman Tariq Habib, told CNBC successful mid-September that helium expected to spot specified a improvement “within the adjacent year.”